Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

- Anderson, Lindsay

Best Quotes about Art

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

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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)

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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.

Ruskin, John

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Midler, Bette

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Eliot, T. S.

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Chopra, Deepak

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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