Motivational Quotes

Art

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Parker, Dorothy

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Tynan, Kenneth

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

Anderson, Judith

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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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

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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

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Capp, Al

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul