Motivational Quotes

Art

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

David Cronenberg

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Riding, Laura

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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

Yu Cao

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

Ward Jenkins

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

William Baziotes

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Berle, Adolf

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Cioran, E. M.

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Driscoll, Louise

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