Motivational Quotes

Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Motherwell, Robert

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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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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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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Ovid

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William