Motivational Quotes

Art

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

- Ciardi, John

Best Quotes about Art

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

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Isak Dineson

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

Love can heal a broken heart.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Wilson, Robert

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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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 is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Piet Mondrian

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Ben Shahn

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Shakespeare, William

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

West, Rebecca