Motivational Quotes

Art

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

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

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Simonides

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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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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

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Riding, Laura

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard