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

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

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

Riding, Laura

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Parker, Theodore

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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 ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.