Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

- Amy Lowell

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

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

Walt Whitman

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Paz, Octavio

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Schumann, Robert

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann