Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Art

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Varese, Edward

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schumann, Robert

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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.

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

David Cronenberg

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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