Motivational Quotes

Art

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

- Chagall, Marc

Best Quotes about Art

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Riding, Laura

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

Anderson, Judith

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Warhol, Andy

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.