Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Conrad, Joseph

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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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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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Yu Cao

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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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 artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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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