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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Brancusi, Constantin

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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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

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Berle, Adolf

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Schumann, Robert

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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

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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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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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 more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

M. C. Richards

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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