Motivational Quotes

Art

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Art

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Frye, Northrop

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

Updike, John

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

Castaneda, Carlos

22.

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

M. C. Richards

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

40.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

45.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is either easy or impossible.