Motivational Quotes

Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Art

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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

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

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

David Cronenberg

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Morris, William

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb

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

Parker, Dorothy

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Moses, Grandma

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John