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

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

Midler, Bette

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Piero Milani

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

Frost, Robert

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Yu Cao

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