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

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Gide, Andre

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Updike, John

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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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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

19.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Eliot, T. S.

23.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Proverb

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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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

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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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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis