Motivational Quotes

Art

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Art

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Shakespeare, William

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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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, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Paz, Octavio

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jacob, Max

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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

David Cronenberg

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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