Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Art

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Zola, Emile

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

Cassady, Neal

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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Piet Mondrian

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Simonides

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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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 arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Eliot, T. S.

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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