Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Art

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Anderson, Lindsay

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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

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

David Cronenberg

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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 more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Mann, Horace

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

Piero Milani

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og