Motivational Quotes

Art

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

- Hockney, David

Best Quotes about Art

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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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.

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

Truman, Harry S

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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

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

Schumann, Robert

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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 more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Midler, Bette

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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 is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Piet Mondrian

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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