Motivational Quotes

Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Art

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

Isak Dineson

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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 the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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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.

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

M. C. Richards

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Morris, William

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Joyce, James

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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