Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Isak Dineson

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Gill, Eric

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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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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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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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Driscoll, Louise

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.