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

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Walt Whitman

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Klee, Paul