Motivational Quotes

Art

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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

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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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 martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Riding, Laura

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Warhol, Andy

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul