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

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Klee, Paul

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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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

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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

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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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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

M. C. Richards

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Updike, John

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

Joyce, James

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Yu Cao

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.