Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Piero Milani

Best Quotes about Art

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Moses, Grandma

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Jeff Melvoin

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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

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Piet Mondrian

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

Eugene Delacroix

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst