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

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

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

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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

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

Schumann, Robert

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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

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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

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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 artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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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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