Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Art

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Ginsberg, Allen

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Duke Ellington

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

Peri, Gabriel

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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

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

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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

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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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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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 is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean