Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Anderson, Judith

Best Quotes about Art

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

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

Novalis

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Picasso, Pablo

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Picasso, Pablo

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

G. K. Chesterton

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Parker, Dorothy

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.