Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rosenberg, Harold

10.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

West, Rebecca

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

18.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

19.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

20.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

31.

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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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.

Keller, Helen

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo