Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Elizabeth Bowen

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

Midler, Bette

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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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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

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce