Motivational Quotes

Art

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

- Farnham, Eliza

Best Quotes about Art

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

W. Somerset Maugham

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Camus, Albert

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.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

David Cronenberg

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

M. C. Richards

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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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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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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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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.

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

Peri, Gabriel