Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Dubuffet, Jean

Best Quotes about Art

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

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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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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Ambrose Bierce

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van