Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Simonides

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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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 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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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

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

Zola, Emile

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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 is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson