Motivational Quotes

Art

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

- Cather, Willa

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ginsberg, Allen

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

Ovid

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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 don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Warhol, Andy

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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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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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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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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Cather, Willa

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Camus, Albert