Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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

Midler, Bette

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

Buckingham, Duke of

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

28.

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

32.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Riding, Laura

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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