Motivational Quotes

Art

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

- Jacob, Max

Best Quotes about Art

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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)

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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 dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

John F. Kennedy

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Piet Mondrian

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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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