Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Art

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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.

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.

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

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Simonides

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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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.