Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Riding, Laura

Best Quotes about Art

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Weil, Simone

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

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

Riding, Laura

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Berle, Adolf

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Schumann, Robert

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Chopra, Deepak

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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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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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Driscoll, Louise

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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 highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Sand, George

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Al Capp

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.