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 paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Updike, John

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

Camus, Albert

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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

Schumann, Robert

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Gide, Andre

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.