Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ovid

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

Walt Whitman

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

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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 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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.