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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Conrad, Joseph

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Love can heal a broken heart.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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.

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Wilson, Robert

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

Yu Cao

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Midler, Bette

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry