Motivational Quotes

Art

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Art

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

West, Rebecca

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

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Zola, Emile

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.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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

George Tooker

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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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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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Paz, Octavio

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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 teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.