Motivational Quotes

Art

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Art

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Shakespeare, William

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Simonides

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

10.

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

11.

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

12.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

13.

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

16.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

17.

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

18.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

19.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

20.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

24.

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

25.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

28.

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

30.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

31.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

32.

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

35.

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

36.

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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

41.

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

Klee, Paul

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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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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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.

45.

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

46.

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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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

49.

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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister