Motivational Quotes

Art

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Art

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann