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

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

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

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Morris, William

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Anderson, Bill

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

Bangs, Lester

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

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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