Motivational Quotes

Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

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

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

Frye, Northrop

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

Morris, William

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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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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Camus, Albert

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bellow, Saul

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.