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

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.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Midler, Bette

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

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

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Schumann, Robert

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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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 work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Piet Mondrian

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peri, Gabriel

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Baudelaire, Charles