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

Love can heal a broken heart.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Schumann, Robert

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Jacob, Max

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador