Motivational Quotes

Art

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

- Parker, Theodore

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Frye, Northrop

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Burroughs, William 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.

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

Gutzkow

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Moses, Grandma

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

William Baziotes

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix