Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Art

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Camus, Albert

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude