Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Midler, Bette

Best Quotes about Art

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Truman, Harry S

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Walt Whitman

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

Novalis

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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 highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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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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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James