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

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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

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

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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