Motivational Quotes

Art

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.

Best Quotes about Art

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

Yu Cao

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Capp, Al

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Howe, Nathaniel