Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Driscoll, Louise

Best Quotes about Art

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Connolly, Cyril

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Ruckett

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Isak Dineson

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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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 on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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 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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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

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

Pablo Picasso

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Paz, Octavio

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Duke Ellington

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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