Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Art

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Howe, Nathaniel

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Riding, Laura

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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

Camus, Albert

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

David Cronenberg

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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

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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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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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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Moses, Grandma

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ovid

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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