Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Walt Whitman

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb

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

Novalis

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Driscoll, Louise

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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

West, Rebecca

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter