Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

Jeff Melvoin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Jacob, Max

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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 is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Joyce, James

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Midler, Bette

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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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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 a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy