Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Riding, Laura

Best Quotes about Art

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Holyfield, Evander

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Riding, Laura

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

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Morris, William

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

Driscoll, Louise

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Robert

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gill, Eric

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich