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 art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

Love can heal a broken heart.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Klee, Paul

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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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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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Frye, Northrop

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

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