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

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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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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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman