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

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

Love can heal a broken heart.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Wilson, Robert

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

Proverb

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Ovid

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Yu Cao

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Piet Mondrian

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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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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 contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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