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

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schumann, Robert

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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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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 essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Simonides

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Updike, John

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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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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible