Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the objectification of feeling.

- Langer, Suzanne K.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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.

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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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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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Camus, Albert

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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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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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack