Motivational Quotes

Art

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Art

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Berle, Adolf

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

15.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

30.

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

Midler, Bette

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

David Cronenberg

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

49.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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