Motivational Quotes

Art

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

- Orson Welles

Best Quotes about Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ionesco, Eugene

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

11.

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

David Cronenberg

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Moses, Grandma

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

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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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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, 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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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson