Motivational Quotes

Art

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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

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

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

Ovid

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.

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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Cather, Willa

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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