Motivational Quotes

Art

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

- Berryman, John

Best Quotes about Art

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

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Frost, Robert

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.