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

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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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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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 creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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

M. C. Richards

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art is a form of catharsis.