Motivational Quotes

Art

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

- Lewitzky, Bella

Best Quotes about Art

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

Truman, Harry S

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.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

Berle, Adolf

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.

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

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Anderson, Judith

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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 is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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