Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Brown, John Mason

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Peri, Gabriel

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

Warhol, Andy

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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 primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Ruckett

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Novalis

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth