Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Joyce, James

Best Quotes about Art

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

Duke Ellington

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

Midler, Bette

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Peri, Gabriel

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Frost, Robert

27.

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

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

31.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Kennedy, John F.

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Piero Milani

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar