Motivational Quotes

Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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)

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Berle, Adolf

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins