Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Art

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Brown, John Mason

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

West, Rebecca

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Holyfield, Evander

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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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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn