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

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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.

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

Kooning, Willem De

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Weil, Simone

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

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Truman, Harry S

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Blackie, Professor

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray