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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

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

Simonides

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Ovid

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

Klee, Paul

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Joyce, James

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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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

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Frye, Northrop

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir