Motivational Quotes

Art

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Art

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

Connolly, Cyril

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jeff Melvoin

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

10.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

12.

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

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

Anderson, Judith

14.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

15.

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

Berle, Adolf

16.

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

Anderson, Bill

17.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

18.

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

19.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

21.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

23.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

24.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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

29.

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

30.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

33.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

34.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

38.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

41.

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

44.

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

49.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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