Motivational Quotes

Art

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

- Dali, Salvador

Best Quotes about Art

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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.

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

Updike, John

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kronenberger, Louis

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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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 people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Weil, Simone

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, 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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.