Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

G. K. Chesterton

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Pablo Picasso

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

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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

Walt Whitman

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

31.

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

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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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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

36.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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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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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

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.