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

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Mann, Horace

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Isak Dineson

Love can heal a broken heart.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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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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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Klee, Paul

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Proverb

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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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 can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Frye, Northrop

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Eugene Delacroix

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

George Tooker

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

Morris, William

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.