Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Art

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Riding, Laura

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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

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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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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

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Ben Shahn

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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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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

Proverb

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

G. K. Chesterton

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Novalis

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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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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.