Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Bellow, Saul

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

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

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

Edith Wharton

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

Woodberry, George E.

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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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

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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 creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Bangs, Lester

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo