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

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Moses, Grandma

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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 is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Berle, Adolf

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Klee, Paul

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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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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques