Motivational Quotes

Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

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

Holyfield, Evander

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

M. C. Richards

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

Roosevelt, Theodore