Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Barenboim, Daniel

Best Quotes about Art

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

Frost, Robert

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Arp, Jean

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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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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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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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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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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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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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 head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John