Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

West, Rebecca

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

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

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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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

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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 criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

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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.

Keller, Helen

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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