Motivational Quotes

Art

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

- Gordon, George

Best Quotes about Art

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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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.

21.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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.

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Midler, Bette

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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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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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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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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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 know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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