Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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 moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Schumann, Robert

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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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 ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Frye, Northrop

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel