Motivational Quotes

Art

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Art

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Andre Gide

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

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bangs, Lester

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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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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 artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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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

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry