Motivational Quotes

Art

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Art

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Bangs, Lester

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

West, Rebecca

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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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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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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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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 are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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

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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 has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Yu Cao

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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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

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)