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

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

M. C. Richards

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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 is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Duke Ellington

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Cather, Willa

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Moses, Grandma

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen