Motivational Quotes

Art

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

- Jami

Best Quotes about Art

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Jacob, Max

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Weil, Simone

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

M. C. Richards

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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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

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Moses, Grandma

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.