Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

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

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

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

Gide, Andre

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

Gill, Eric

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.