Motivational Quotes

Art

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Best Quotes about Art

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

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

Ovid

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Eliot, T. S.

44.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham