Motivational Quotes

Art

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

- Blair, Hugh

Best Quotes about Art

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

Pascal, Blaise

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Chopra, Deepak

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

13.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

14.

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Woodberry, George E.

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Edmond de Goncourt

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

24.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

25.

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

26.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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

Frye, Northrop

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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

35.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Duke Ellington

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

42.

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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John