Motivational Quotes

Art

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

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

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Berle, Adolf

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Midler, Bette

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Ben Shahn

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Proverb

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Zola, Emile

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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

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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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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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

38.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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

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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.