Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Art

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Camus, Albert

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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