Motivational Quotes

Art

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Art

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Ginsberg, Allen

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

M. C. Richards

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Walt Whitman

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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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 we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul