Motivational Quotes

Art

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Anderson, Bill

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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

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

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Gill, Eric

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Frye, Northrop

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

26.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

27.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Chopra, Deepak

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich