Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

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.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Schumann, Robert

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

14.

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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

22.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

34.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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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

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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 people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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