Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Gutzkow

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

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

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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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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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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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 is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Jeff Melvoin

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Peri, Gabriel

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

25.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

34.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Love can heal a broken heart.

39.

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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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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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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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 is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John