Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Novalis

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Holyfield, Evander

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Simonides

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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

Updike, John

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

Cather, Willa

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Piet Mondrian

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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