Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is a form of catharsis.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Driscoll, Louise

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Picasso, Pablo

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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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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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Midler, Bette

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

M. C. Richards

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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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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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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