Motivational Quotes

Art

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

- Johnson, Ben

Best Quotes about Art

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Truman, Harry S

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ruskin, John

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

John F. Kennedy

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Robert

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.