Motivational Quotes

Art

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Art

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Anderson, Lindsay

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Ruskin, John

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Novalis

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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 way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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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