Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart will break, but broken live on.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Art

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

Frost, Robert

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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.

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

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Proverb

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ben Shahn

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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

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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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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David