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

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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.

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

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

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Joyce, James

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Klee, Paul

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

Anderson, Judith