Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Andre Gide

Best Quotes about Art

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Moses, Grandma

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Duke Ellington

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Midler, Bette

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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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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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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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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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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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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise