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

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

Piet Mondrian

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Anderson, Judith

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Proverb, Chinese

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilson, Robert

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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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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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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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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 human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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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.