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

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Dubuffet, Jean

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Riding, Laura

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

M. C. Richards

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa