Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about 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

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Andre Gide

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Gide, Andre

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Piet Mondrian

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

Ciardi, John

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Weil, Simone

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.