Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Art

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Andre Gide

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Blackie, Professor

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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

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

Kooning, Willem De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, John Mason

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]