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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

Buckingham, Duke of

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

Love can heal a broken heart.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Berle, Adolf

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Edith Wharton

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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

Holyfield, Evander

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

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

Pablo Picasso

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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