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

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

Cather, Willa

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

Midler, Bette

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb

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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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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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 is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Driscoll, Louise

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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.