Motivational Quotes

Art

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Art

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

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Parker, Theodore

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

Chopra, Deepak

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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

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

Dubuffet, Jean

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

10.

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

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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

23.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

24.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Morris, William

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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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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Wilson, Robert

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean