Motivational Quotes

Art

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Ward Jenkins

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Cather, Willa

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Warhol, Andy

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

Frye, Northrop

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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?

Wordsworth, William

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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

Proverb

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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 suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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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

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

Klee, Paul

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules 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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre