Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yu Cao

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Warhol, Andy

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

M. C. Richards

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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

Gutzkow

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter