Motivational Quotes

Art

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

- Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Best Quotes about Art

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Murdoch, Iris

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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

William Baziotes

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Keller, Helen

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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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 I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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 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

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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

Anderson, Judith

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani