Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

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

Paz, Octavio

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Andre Gide

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Chopra, Deepak

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Novalis

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Bangs, Lester

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

27.

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

Duke Ellington

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

30.

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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Pablo Picasso

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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 is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Updike, John