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

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

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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

Schumann, Robert

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Shakespeare, William

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul