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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

Mandino, Og

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Wilson, Robert

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Updike, John

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Zola, Emile

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Truman, Harry S

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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.