Motivational Quotes

Art

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

- Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Best Quotes about Art

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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)

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Shakespeare, William

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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

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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Piero Milani

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Schumann, Robert

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo