Motivational Quotes

Art

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

- Gandhi, Indira

Best Quotes about Art

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Schumann, Robert

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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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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 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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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 finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo