Motivational Quotes

Art

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

- Rushdie, Salman

Best Quotes about Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

Rushdie, Salman

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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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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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Jovovich, Milla

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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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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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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

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly