Motivational Quotes

Art

No manager ever won no ballgames.

- Anderson, Sparky

Best Quotes about Art

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

Midler, Bette

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Holyfield, Evander

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Anderson, Judith

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark