Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Anderson, Judith

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Woodberry, George E.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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

Zola, Emile

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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 more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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

M. C. Richards

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

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.