Motivational Quotes

Art

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Art

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

M. C. Richards

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Keller, Helen

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Klee, Paul

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Holyfield, Evander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Connolly, Cyril

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Proverb

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

G. K. Chesterton

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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 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

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

Piero Milani

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin