Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Brown, John Mason

Best Quotes about Art

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Connolly, Cyril

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Howe, Nathaniel

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Novalis

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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 difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

Ward Jenkins