Motivational Quotes

Art

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- Anderson, Sparky

Best Quotes about Art

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

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Bellow, Saul

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Zola, Emile

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander