Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Art

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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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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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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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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 martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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