Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

- Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Chopra, Deepak

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Midler, Bette

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Gill, Eric

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Cather, Willa

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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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Conrad, Joseph

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Piero Milani

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Novalis

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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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

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

William Baziotes

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence