Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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

Edmond de Goncourt

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Berle, Adolf

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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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 people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Duke Ellington

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

Walt Whitman

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Cather, Willa

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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.