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

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Moses, Grandma

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Anderson, Judith

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.