Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Best Quotes about 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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Murdoch, Iris

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin