Motivational Quotes

Art

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

- Wiersbe, Warren

Best Quotes about Art

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Klee, Paul

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schumann, Robert

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Camus, Albert

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Updike, John

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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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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

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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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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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 is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.