Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Art

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

Peri, Gabriel

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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

Morris, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales