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

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Arp, Jean

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Gutzkow

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Piet Mondrian

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Frye, Northrop

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Yu Cao

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James