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 a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Eugene Delacroix

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Midler, Bette

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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

William Baziotes

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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 finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Berle, Adolf

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow