Motivational Quotes

Art

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Art

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

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

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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)

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Piero Milani

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Schumann, Robert

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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