Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Camus, Albert

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Pablo Picasso

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Varese, Edward

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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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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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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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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

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

49.

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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