Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Schumann, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

William Baziotes

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Zola, Emile

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean