Motivational Quotes

Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Art

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Walt Whitman

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

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

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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Proverb, Chinese

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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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 True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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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.