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 essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

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

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

West, Rebecca

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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 contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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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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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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