Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

- Reinhardt, Ad

Best Quotes about Art

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Barenboim, Daniel

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Ben Shahn

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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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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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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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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

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

Schumann, Robert

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Jackson Pollock

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Piero Milani

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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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

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John