Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Art

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Novalis

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Capp, Al

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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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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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

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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

Frost, Robert

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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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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas