Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Schumann, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

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

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Joyce, James

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Schumann, Robert

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.