Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Schnitzler, Arthur

Best Quotes about Art

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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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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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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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

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Zola, Emile

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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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Eugene Delacroix

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.