Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Schumann, Robert

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Melville, Herman

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

Anderson, Bill

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

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Gide, Andre

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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 more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bangs, Lester

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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible