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 distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

Love can heal a broken heart.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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 is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Updike, John

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Frye, Northrop

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

Duke Ellington

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Zola, Emile

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ward Jenkins

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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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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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp