Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Elizabeth Bowen

Best Quotes about Art

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

G. K. Chesterton

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Anderson, Bill

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

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Murdoch, Iris

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Cather, Willa

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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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 public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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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

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

Jacob, Max

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Bangs, Lester

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

45.

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

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

Updike, John

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

Joyce, James

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

Connolly, Cyril