Motivational Quotes

Art

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

- Elizabeth Bowen

Best Quotes about Art

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Warhol, Andy

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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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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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

M. C. Richards

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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