Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Art

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Peri, Gabriel

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Midler, Bette

10.

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

11.

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

21.

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

22.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

23.

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

Bellow, Saul

25.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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

28.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

32.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

34.

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

35.

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

38.

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

39.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

42.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

45.

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

46.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

47.

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

Gill, Eric

48.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

49.

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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.