Motivational Quotes

Art

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

- Barzun, Jacques

Best Quotes about Art

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Gide, Andre

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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