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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Updike, John

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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

Burroughs, William S.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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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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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

M. C. Richards

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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

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

David Cronenberg