Motivational Quotes

Art

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Yu Cao

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Joyce, James

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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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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 has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo