Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Art

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

Piet Mondrian

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Midler, Bette

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Eliot, T. S.

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Duke Ellington

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Riding, Laura

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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

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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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.

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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