Motivational Quotes

Art

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

- Gandhi, Indira

Best Quotes about Art

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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 best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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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 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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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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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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 shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Joyce, James

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Duke Ellington

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)