Motivational Quotes

Art

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Art

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Driscoll, Louise

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Midler, Bette

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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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 forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo