Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Riding, Laura

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Driscoll, Louise

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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 people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Capp, Al

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.