Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Ginsberg, Allen

Best Quotes about Art

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

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

Midler, Bette

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Schumann, Robert

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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 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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Gill, Eric

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

Joyce, James

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

William Baziotes

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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 is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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

Riding, Laura

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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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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas