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

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Connolly, Cyril

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Conrad, Joseph

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Piero Milani

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Proverb

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

Camus, Albert

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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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 heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander