Motivational Quotes

Art

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Art

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

G. K. Chesterton

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Ciardi, John

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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

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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

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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 work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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

M. C. Richards

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

Updike, John

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth