Motivational Quotes

Art

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Art

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

Dubuffet, Jean

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Jeff Melvoin

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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

Ruskin, John

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis