Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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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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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 am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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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

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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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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Gill, Eric

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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.