Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Lowell, James Russell

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Proverb

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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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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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Klee, Paul

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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