Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Art

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

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

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Picasso, Pablo

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Anderson, Judith

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

Parker, Theodore

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay