Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Kennedy, John F.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

M. C. Richards

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

Chopra, Deepak

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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.

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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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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, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

David Cronenberg

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean