Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Art

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ambrose Bierce

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

28.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Duke Ellington

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Keller, Helen

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

M. C. Richards

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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