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

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

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

Dubuffet, Jean

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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.

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir 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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Parker, Theodore

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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.

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes