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

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

Chopra, Deepak

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Ward Jenkins

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.