Motivational Quotes

Art

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Art

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

Henry Ward Beecher

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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 people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Riding, Laura

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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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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham