Motivational Quotes

Art

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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

Keller, Helen

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Gill, Eric

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Blackie, Professor

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren