Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Morris, William

Best Quotes about Art

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Keller, Helen

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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.

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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 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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Riding, Laura

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark