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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.