Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Art

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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 desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

G. K. Chesterton

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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 is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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 a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean