Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Baziotes

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Klee, Paul

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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 forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Chopra, Deepak