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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Arp, Jean

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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

David Cronenberg

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Duke Ellington

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

Picasso, Pablo

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Parker, Theodore