Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Art

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Paz, Octavio

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

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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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow