Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

G. K. Chesterton

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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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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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Gill, Eric

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

David Cronenberg

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Einstein, Albert

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide