Motivational Quotes

Art

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

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Mann, Horace

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

Gutzkow

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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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

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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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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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 free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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