Motivational Quotes

Art

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

- Vaughan, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

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 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

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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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 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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

Novalis

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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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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

Thurber, James

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Updike, John

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max