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

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

Woodberry, George E.

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jeff Melvoin

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Riding, Laura

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

Ovid

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

Joyce, James

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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 has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William