Motivational Quotes

Art

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

- Anderson, Bill

Best Quotes about Art

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Eliot, T. S.

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Yu Cao

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Driscoll, Louise

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Joyce, James

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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.