Motivational Quotes

Art

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Duke Ellington

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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

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

Gide, Andre

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Truman, Harry S

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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