Motivational Quotes

Art

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Best Quotes about Art

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the 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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo