Motivational Quotes

Art

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ben Shahn

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 for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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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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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Kael, Pauline

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

David Cronenberg

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Andre Gide

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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