Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Eugene Delacroix

Best Quotes about Art

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

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Riding, Laura

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Weil, Simone

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Schumann, Robert

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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 think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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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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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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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

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von