Motivational Quotes

Art

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Art

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Anderson, Judith

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Piet Mondrian

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Morris, William

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Andre Gide

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.