Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Midler, Bette

Best Quotes about Art

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Novalis

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Klee, Paul

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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)

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene