Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Woodberry, George E.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Capp, Al

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Frost, Robert

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Shakespeare, William

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

William Baziotes

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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.

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.