Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Conrad, Joseph

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Novalis

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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 an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan