Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Piet Mondrian

Best Quotes about Art

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Novalis

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jeff Melvoin

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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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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Proverb

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Duke Ellington