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

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Parker, Theodore

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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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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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 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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mailer, Norman

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Walt Whitman

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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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.