Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

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

Morris, William

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Anderson, Judith

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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 are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Capp, Al

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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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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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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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 heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish