Motivational Quotes

Art

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Art

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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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 -- 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 heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Andre Gide

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Kooning, Willem De

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.