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

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

G. K. Chesterton

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Capp, Al

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

Piet Mondrian

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.