Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

- Arp, Jean

Best Quotes about Art

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

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Morris, William

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

Updike, John

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

Anderson, Lindsay

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Eliot, T. S.

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Mann, Horace

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Schumann, Robert

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

David Cronenberg

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Kael, Pauline