Motivational Quotes

Art

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Art

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Edith Wharton

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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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

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.