Motivational Quotes

Art

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

- Poe, Edgar Allan

Best Quotes about Art

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

Conrad, Joseph

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Thurber, James

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

Mailer, Norman

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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 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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Schumann, Robert