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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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

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

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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 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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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 not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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

Updike, John

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Moses, Grandma

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul