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

Picasso, Pablo

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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

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

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Jeff Melvoin

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Schumann, Robert

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Capp, Al

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Shakespeare, William

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall