Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Art

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Waugh, Evelyn

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Klee, Paul

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De