Motivational Quotes

Art

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Art

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

11.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Novalis

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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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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 at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

27.

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

Moses, Grandma

28.

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

35.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Anderson, Judith

46.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

47.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Midler, Bette

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert