Motivational Quotes

Art

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Art

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Midler, Bette

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

12.

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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen