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

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.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

Cather, Willa

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Camus, Albert

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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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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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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Riding, Laura

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

G. K. Chesterton

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

Churchill, Winston

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Arp, Jean

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline