Motivational Quotes

Art

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.

Best Quotes about Art

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Riding, Laura

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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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 creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Proverb

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Jackson Pollock

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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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 is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)