Motivational Quotes

Art

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Art

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Arp, Jean

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

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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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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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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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly