Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bangs, Lester

Best Quotes about Art

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

Bellow, Saul

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Mann, Horace

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, 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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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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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra