Motivational Quotes

Art

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

- Driscoll, Louise

Best Quotes about Art

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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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

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Schumann, Robert

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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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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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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Yu Cao

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

Updike, John

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John