Motivational Quotes

Art

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Art

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Cather, Willa

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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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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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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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, 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 position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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

Zola, Emile

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

Novalis

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis