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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Schumann, Robert

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

M. C. Richards

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Joyce, James

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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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Anderson, Bill

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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

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Peri, Gabriel