Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Parker, Dorothy

25.

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

45.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Yu Cao

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra