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

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

Kempis, Thomas

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

Love can heal a broken heart.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Piero Milani

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Holyfield, Evander

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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 biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Piet Mondrian

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.