Motivational Quotes

Art

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Art

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

William Baziotes

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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 heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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 distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Updike, John

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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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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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

M. C. Richards

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

Driscoll, Louise

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Novalis

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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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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

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo