Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Howe, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Art

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Chopra, Deepak

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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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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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert