Motivational Quotes

Art

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Art

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

Franklin, Benjamin

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Cather, Willa

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Thurber, James

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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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 position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Roosevelt, Theodore