Motivational Quotes

Art

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

- Debord, Guy

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Gutzkow

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

M. C. Richards

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

Gill, Eric

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Arp, Jean

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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

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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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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

G. K. Chesterton

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von