Motivational Quotes

Art

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Art

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ambrose Bierce

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

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

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Holyfield, Evander

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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 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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Driscoll, Louise

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.