Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Art

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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

Eliot, T. S.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Connolly, Cyril

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Walt Whitman

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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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.

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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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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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

Brancusi, Constantin