Motivational Quotes

Art

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

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

Jacob, Max

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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.

Love can heal a broken heart.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Schumann, Robert

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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 eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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