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

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Gutzkow

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Chopra, Deepak

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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 work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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

Piero Milani

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 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

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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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 is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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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