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

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

Cather, Willa

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

Motherwell, Robert

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Ruskin, John

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

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Schumann, Robert

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

Mailer, Norman

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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 is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

M. C. Richards

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Parker, Theodore

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.