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

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

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

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

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Holyfield, Evander

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Bangs, Lester

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Mailer, Norman

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.