Motivational Quotes

Art

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

- Vaughan, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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

Camus, Albert

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

Isak Dineson

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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 I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Bangs, Lester

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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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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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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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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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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