Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Suttner, Bertha Von

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.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Schumann, Robert

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Jackson Pollock

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo