Motivational Quotes

Art

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

- Godard, Jean-Luc

Best Quotes about Art

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

Murdoch, Iris

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Piero Milani

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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 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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas