Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Gutzkow

Best Quotes about Art

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Kennedy, John F.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

M. C. Richards

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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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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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Klee, Paul

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

29.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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.

33.

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

34.

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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