Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Art

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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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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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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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von