Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Art

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Zola, Emile

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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

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Shakespeare, William

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

M. C. Richards

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Warhol, Andy

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William