Motivational Quotes

Art

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

- Nightingale, Florence

Best Quotes about Art

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Melville, Herman

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

Midler, Bette

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Tynan, Kenneth

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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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

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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

Kooning, Willem De

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Piet Mondrian

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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

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.