Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Art

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Varese, Edward

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Anderson, Judith

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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