Motivational Quotes

Art

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

- Walt Whitman

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Midler, Bette

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

G. K. Chesterton

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Riding, Laura

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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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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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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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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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

David Cronenberg

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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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 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 martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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