Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Art

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weil, Simone

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

M. C. Richards

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Piet Mondrian

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Andre Gide

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo