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 a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Midler, Bette

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

Morris, William

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Driscoll, Louise

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

M. C. Richards

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

Isak Dineson

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Peri, Gabriel

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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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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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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.]