Motivational Quotes

Art

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Art

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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

William Baziotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Schumann, Robert

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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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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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 teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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

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

Al Capp

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas