Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

- Paul Gauguin

Best Quotes about Art

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kooning, Willem De

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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

Kennedy, John F.

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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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

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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 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

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

40.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

43.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Updike, John

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

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

48.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frye, Northrop