Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Kael, Pauline

Best Quotes about Art

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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

Camus, Albert

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Ben Shahn

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

Gill, Eric

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

Klee, Paul

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Frost, Robert

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Shakespeare, William