Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Art

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

Morris, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

10.

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

Gill, Eric

11.

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

Driscoll, Louise

12.

Love can heal a broken heart.

13.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

14.

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

Berle, Adolf

15.

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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gide, Andre

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Piero Milani

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

35.

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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

39.

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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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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 heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Cioran, E. M.