Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

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

Duke Ellington

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Zola, Emile

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Shakespeare, William

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Novalis

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

William Baziotes

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Midler, Bette

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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.