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

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Jeff Melvoin

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Zola, Emile

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

Blackie, Professor

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

Simonides

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

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.