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

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

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Truman, Harry S

Mandino, Og

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

Pablo Picasso

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.

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

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

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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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 martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Picasso, Pablo

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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

David Cronenberg

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.