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

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

Midler, Bette

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Warhol, Andy

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Riding, Laura

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Camus, Albert

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

Cather, Willa

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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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