Motivational Quotes

Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

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

Shakespeare, William

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Melville, Herman

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Weil, Simone

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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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 aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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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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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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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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

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Tynan, Kenneth