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

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

Ruckett

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

Updike, John

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

27.

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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.