Motivational Quotes

Art

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

- Dworkin, Andrea

Best Quotes about Art

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

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

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

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

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Piero Milani

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Paz, Octavio

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Jeff Melvoin

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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

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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

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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 is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proust, Marcel

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Dworkin, Andrea

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

Novalis

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

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Joyce, James

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.