Motivational Quotes

Art

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

- Blair, Hugh

Best Quotes about Art

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

Edith Wharton

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

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 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 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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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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

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

22.

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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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

Berle, Adolf

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra