Motivational Quotes

Art

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.

Best Quotes about Art

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Piero Milani

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Motherwell, Robert

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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 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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.