Motivational Quotes

Art

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

- Smith, Dean

Best Quotes about Art

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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 one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

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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

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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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 creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray