Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Art

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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.

2.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

3.

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

4.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

5.

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

6.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

M. C. Richards

10.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

11.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

12.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

13.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

15.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

16.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

17.

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

19.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

21.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

22.

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

23.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

24.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

26.

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

28.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

29.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

30.

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

31.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

33.

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

Weil, Simone

34.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

G. K. Chesterton

37.

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

40.

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

41.

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

Howe, Nathaniel

42.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

43.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

44.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.