Motivational Quotes

Art

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Art

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Capp, Al

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Schumann, Robert

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca