Motivational Quotes

Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

- Aristophanes

Best Quotes about Art

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Kronenberger, Louis

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Camus, Albert

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Al Capp

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Proverb

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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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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla