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

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Novalis

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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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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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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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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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.

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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

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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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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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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

Rosenberg, Harold