Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Art

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

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Cioran, E. M.

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Bible

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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