Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Art

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

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Blackie, Professor

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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 dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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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

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Melville, Herman

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian