Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Art

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

Parker, Dorothy

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Connolly, Cyril

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Joyce, James

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Klee, Paul

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Motherwell, Robert

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Thurber, James

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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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