Motivational Quotes

Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Art

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Murdoch, Iris

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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

David Cronenberg

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

Holyfield, Evander

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Joyce, James

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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

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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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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard