Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Eugene Delacroix

Best Quotes about Art

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Jackson Pollock

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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 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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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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 imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren