Motivational Quotes

Art

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

- Cather, Willa

Best Quotes about Art

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

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

Wordsworth, William

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

12.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

15.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

17.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

18.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

19.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

20.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

21.

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

22.

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

25.

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Buckingham, Duke of

33.

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

34.

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

35.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

45.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

46.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

47.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis