Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Brancusi, Constantin

Best Quotes about Art

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Proverb

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

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

Buckingham, Duke of

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Peri, Gabriel

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Holyfield, Evander

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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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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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

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Novalis

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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

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

Brown, John Mason

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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