Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Art

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Weil, Simone

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Novalis

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Paz, Octavio

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Melville, Herman

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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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

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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

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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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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Henry Ward Beecher