Motivational Quotes

Art

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Art

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Ovid

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Ciardi, John

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

10.

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

11.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Piet Mondrian

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

Proverb

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

43.

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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman