Motivational Quotes

Art

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

- Kronenberger, Louis

Best Quotes about Art

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

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

George Tooker

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Al Capp

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

David Cronenberg

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb