Motivational Quotes

Art

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

- Anderson, Judith

Best Quotes about Art

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

Frost, Robert

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Churchill, Winston

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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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

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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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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

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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

David Cronenberg

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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.