Motivational Quotes

Art

Every artist was first an amateur.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Art

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

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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

Morris, William

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Riding, Laura

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De