Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Pablo Picasso

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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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 have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Cather, Willa

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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 people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales