Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Art

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.

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.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Rosenberg, Harold

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Duke Ellington

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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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

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

M. C. Richards

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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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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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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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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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 artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis