Motivational Quotes

Art

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

- Beck

Best Quotes about Art

Beck

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Picasso, Pablo

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Gill, Eric

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Driscoll, Louise

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Bellow, Saul

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is either easy or impossible.