Motivational Quotes

Art

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

- Nickolas Muray

Best Quotes about Art

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

Proverb

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Riding, Laura

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

10.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

12.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

13.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

14.

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

17.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

18.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

20.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

21.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

22.

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

23.

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

Parker, Dorothy

24.

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

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

26.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

27.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

28.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

31.

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

G. K. Chesterton

32.

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

33.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

34.

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

35.

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

Driscoll, Louise

36.

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

37.

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

38.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

39.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

40.

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

41.

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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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

43.

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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

45.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

46.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

47.

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

48.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

49.

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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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon