Motivational Quotes

Art

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Ruskin, John

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, 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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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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 only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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 passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford