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

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

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Sand, George

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

Paz, Octavio

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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.

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

Riding, Laura

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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 believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Jackson Pollock

33.

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

Wordsworth, William

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Novalis

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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 is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

Peri, Gabriel