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

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

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

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

William Baziotes

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Moses, Grandma

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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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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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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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