Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Midler, Bette

Best Quotes about Art

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Moses, Grandma

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Midler, Bette

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

Howe, Nathaniel

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peri, Gabriel

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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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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

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

26.

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

Wilson, Robert

27.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Picasso, Pablo

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Holyfield, Evander

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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