Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Art

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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)

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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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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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kael, Pauline

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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