Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Best Quotes about Art

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Schumann, Robert

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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 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.

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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

Novalis

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

Moses, Grandma

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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

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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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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