Motivational Quotes

Art

All art is an imitation of nature.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Art

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

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Moses, Grandma

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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 vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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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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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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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

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al