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

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

Joyce, James

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Andre Gide

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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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

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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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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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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 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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Novalis

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Brown, John Mason

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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, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Jackson Pollock

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

Bible

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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