Motivational Quotes

Art

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Art

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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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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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Camus, Albert

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Berle, Adolf

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

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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

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

Morris, William

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.