Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

- Joyce, James

Best Quotes about Art

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Baziotes

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

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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

Duke Ellington

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Peri, Gabriel

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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 heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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.

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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 our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas