Motivational Quotes

Art

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Brown, John Mason

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

10.

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

Anderson, Judith

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Midler, Bette

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love can heal a broken heart.

39.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Proverb

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador