Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

- Adorno, Theodor W.

Best Quotes about Art

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

Schumann, Robert

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.