Motivational Quotes

Art

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Art

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

M. C. Richards

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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 are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Bangs, Lester

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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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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

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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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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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.