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

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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 -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

William Baziotes

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

West, Rebecca