Motivational Quotes

Art

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Chopra, Deepak

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Melville, Herman

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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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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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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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

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa