Motivational Quotes

Art

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

- Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Best Quotes about Art

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Duke Ellington

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

William Baziotes

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Moses, Grandma

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert