Motivational Quotes

Art

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Art

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Frye, Northrop

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Morris, William

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Woodberry, George E.

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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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 not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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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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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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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker