Motivational Quotes

Art

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

- Anderson, Judith

Best Quotes about Art

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Kempis, Thomas

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Piero Milani

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore