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

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Paz, Octavio

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

G. K. Chesterton

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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 heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Midler, Bette

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

Keller, Helen

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.