Motivational Quotes

Art

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Art

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Riding, Laura

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen