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

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Baudelaire, Charles

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Driscoll, Louise

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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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 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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

Gill, Eric

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.