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

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Walt Whitman

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

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Berle, Adolf

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Bowring, Sir John

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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

M. C. Richards

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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 position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian