Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Kael, Pauline

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is a form of catharsis.