Motivational Quotes

Art

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

- William Baziotes

Best Quotes about Art

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

Piero Milani

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Jeff Melvoin

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Anderson, Judith

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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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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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Klee, Paul

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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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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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.