Motivational Quotes

Art

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Art

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Anderson, Lindsay

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Berle, Adolf

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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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 best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Jeff Melvoin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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

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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 ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

Proverb

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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, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton