Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Thurber, James

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

Camus, Albert

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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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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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

William Baziotes

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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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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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards