Motivational Quotes

Art

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Art

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Duke Ellington

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Joyce, James

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Berle, Adolf

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Riding, Laura

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

Shakespeare, William