Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Paz, Octavio

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Frost, Robert

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume