Motivational Quotes

Art

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Art

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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

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

M. C. Richards

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

Peri, Gabriel

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buckingham, Duke of