Motivational Quotes

Art

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

- Matisse, Henri

Best Quotes about Art

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

Chopra, Deepak

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

George Tooker

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Cather, Willa

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Mailer, Norman

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

19.

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

20.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Walt Whitman

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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 heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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

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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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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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 artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry