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

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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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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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Keller, Helen

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Shakespeare, William

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh