Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Capp, Al

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

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

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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

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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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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

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

David Cronenberg

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Cioran, E. M.

44.

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

Peri, Gabriel

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra