Motivational Quotes

Art

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

- Blackie, Professor

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Arp, Jean

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.