Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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

Motherwell, Robert

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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.

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Warhol, Andy

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch