Motivational Quotes

Art

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Anderson, Bill

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Bible

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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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

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Camus, Albert

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William