Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

Best Quotes about Art

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ovid

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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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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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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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Truman, Harry S

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Midler, Bette

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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.