Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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