Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Art

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

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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

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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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 focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Simonides

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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 Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard