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

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Murdoch, Iris

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Simonides

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Klee, Paul

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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

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

Schumann, Robert

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Warhol, Andy