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

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Camus, Albert

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Piero Milani

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Mailer, Norman

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo