Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Art

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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.

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

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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.

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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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Zola, Emile

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Piero Milani

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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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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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 is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Shakespeare, William

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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 heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell