Motivational Quotes

Art

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Art

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

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