Motivational Quotes

Art

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

- Johnson, Ben

Best Quotes about Art

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Parker, Dorothy

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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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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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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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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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford