Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Art

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

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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

Arp, Jean

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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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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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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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