Motivational Quotes

Art

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

- Schumann, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

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

Barenboim, Daniel

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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 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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Frye, Northrop