Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Brown, John Mason

Best Quotes about Art

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

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

G. K. Chesterton

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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 for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kooning, Willem De

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Schumann, Robert

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.