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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Eliot, T. S.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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 are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Parker, Theodore

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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.