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

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

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

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Shakespeare, William

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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 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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

M. C. Richards

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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