Motivational Quotes

Art

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

- Bowring, Sir John

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Ward Jenkins

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Gutzkow

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Klee, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

West, Rebecca

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

Proverb

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Piero Milani

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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