Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Morris, William

Best Quotes about Art

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.

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

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Chopra, Deepak

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Joyce, James

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis