Motivational Quotes

Art

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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

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

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

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Jovovich, Milla

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?