Motivational Quotes

Art

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

- Ward Jenkins

Best Quotes about Art

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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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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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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kronenberger, Louis