Motivational Quotes

Art

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Zola, Emile

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

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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

Gill, Eric

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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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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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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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, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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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

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky