Motivational Quotes

Art

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

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Best Quotes about Art

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Weil, Simone

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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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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

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Moses, Grandma

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Simonides

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Churchill, Winston

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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