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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

G. K. Chesterton

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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 sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Weil, Simone

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Truman, Harry S

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Warhol, Andy

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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 the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

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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