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

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

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

Anderson, Judith

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Simonides

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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Mailer, Norman

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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