Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Mann, Horace

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

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Riding, Laura

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Piero Milani

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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

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Brown, John Mason

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Updike, John

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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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

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

Peri, Gabriel

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van