Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Art

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

Gutzkow

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

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Anderson, Judith

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

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

Updike, John

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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