Motivational Quotes

Art

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Best Quotes about Art

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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

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

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Kooning, Willem De

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

Piero Milani

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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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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

30.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ruckett

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

Novalis

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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

Yu Cao

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S