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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Schumann, Robert

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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

M. C. Richards

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

Morris, William

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

Zola, Emile

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert 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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Riding, Laura

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