Motivational Quotes

Art

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

- Midler, Bette

Best Quotes about Art

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Sand, George

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert