Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Art

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parker, Dorothy

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Novalis

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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

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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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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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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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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

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, John F.

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Schumann, Robert

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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