Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

- Arp, Jean

Best Quotes about Art

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Klee, Paul

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Simonides

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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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

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Parker, Theodore

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

Frost, Robert

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.