Motivational Quotes

Art

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

- Isak Dineson

Best Quotes about Art

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Love can heal a broken heart.

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Peri, Gabriel

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Berle, Adolf

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Midler, Bette

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

Bierce, Ambrose