Motivational Quotes

Art

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

- Blair, Hugh

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Mann, Horace

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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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Frye, Northrop

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Blackie, Professor

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath