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

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Midler, Bette

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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

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Parker, Theodore

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

G. K. Chesterton

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Yu Cao

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.