Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Schumann, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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.

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Zola, Emile

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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 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 martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.