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

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

Howe, Nathaniel

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Piero Milani

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Picasso, Pablo

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bangs, Lester

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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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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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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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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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 is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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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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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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

Updike, John

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