Motivational Quotes

Art

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Art

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Pablo Picasso

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Isak Dineson

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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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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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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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Eliot, T. S.

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas