Motivational Quotes

Art

I shut my eyes in order to see.

- Paul Gauguin

Best Quotes about Art

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

Proverb

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

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Frost, Robert

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Updike, John

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Chopra, Deepak

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Duke Ellington

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques