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

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Walt Whitman

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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.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Simonides

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Keller, Helen

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Camus, Albert

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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.