Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Art

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

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

Novalis

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

William Baziotes

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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 final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Conrad, Joseph

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Piet Mondrian

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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 need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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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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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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