Motivational Quotes

Art

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

- Latimer, Bishop Hugh

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Jackson Pollock

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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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

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 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

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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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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

M. C. Richards

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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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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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Klee, Paul

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman