Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Holyfield, Evander

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

Camus, Albert

10.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

11.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

13.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

21.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Updike, John

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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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

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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, 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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

Simonides

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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 is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Eliot, T. S.