Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Howe, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Art

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Novalis

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Proust, Marcel

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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.

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Blackie, Professor

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Riding, Laura

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Weil, Simone

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

32.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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.

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Moses, Grandma

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