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

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

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Mailer, Norman

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 is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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

Anderson, Judith

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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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 greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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 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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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.