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

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

Anderson, Judith

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Peri, Gabriel

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Jacob, Max

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry