Motivational Quotes

Art

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Art

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

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sand, George

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

Piet Mondrian

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch