Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

Best Quotes about Art

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Walt Whitman

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Moses, Grandma

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Sand, George

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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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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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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Shakespeare, William

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.