Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Tynan, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Art

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

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love can heal a broken heart.

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

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Chopra, Deepak

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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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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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Churchill, Winston

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent