Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

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

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Riding, Laura

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

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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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 man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Klee, Paul

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

Blackie, Professor

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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