Motivational Quotes

Art

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Art

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

Jackson Pollock

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Picasso, Pablo

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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 never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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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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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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