Motivational Quotes

Art

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

- Trilling, Lionel

Best Quotes about Art

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Shakespeare, William

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weil, Simone

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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Trilling, Lionel

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

Schumann, Robert

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.