Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Piero Milani

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

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

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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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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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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

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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis