Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

- Amy Lowell

Best Quotes about Art

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Jovovich, Milla

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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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Parker, Dorothy

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Novalis

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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