Motivational Quotes

Art

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

- Drummond, John

Best Quotes about Art

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

Eugene Delacroix

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

Ward Jenkins

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.

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

Schumann, Robert

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Frost, Robert

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

Piero Milani

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

31.

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

William Baziotes

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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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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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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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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Yu Cao

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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