Motivational Quotes

Art

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

- Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ciardi, John

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Piet Mondrian

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

11.

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

Barenboim, Daniel

12.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Bangs, Lester

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese