Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Art

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Berle, Adolf

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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)

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Simonides

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Riding, Laura

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Shakespeare, William

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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 art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Chopra, Deepak

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.