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

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

25.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

28.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

33.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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O, had I but followed the arts!