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

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Waugh, Evelyn

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Castaneda, Carlos

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Piet Mondrian

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Piero Milani

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

Bangs, Lester

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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.