Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the objectification of feeling.

- Langer, Suzanne K.

Best Quotes about Art

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ovid

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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 martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Camus, Albert

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Yu Cao

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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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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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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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

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.