Motivational Quotes

Art

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Best Quotes about Art

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.

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

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Novalis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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

Thurber, James

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schumann, Robert

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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 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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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.