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

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

Love can heal a broken heart.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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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.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Chopra, Deepak

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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