Motivational Quotes

Art

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

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Gide, Andre

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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

Bangs, Lester

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)

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

Jackson Pollock

12.

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

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

22.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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

28.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

29.

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

30.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

31.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

32.

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

33.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

38.

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

39.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

40.

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

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

45.

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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

49.

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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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