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

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

Einstein, Albert

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Shakespeare, William

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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

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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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