Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Art

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Frost, Robert

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Lowell, James Russell

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Midler, Bette

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Kael, Pauline

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Einstein, Albert

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.