Motivational Quotes

Art

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Art

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Frye, Northrop

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Jovovich, Milla

41.

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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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao