Motivational Quotes

Art

Balance is the enemy of art.

- Eyre, Richard

Best Quotes about Art

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Weil, Simone

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.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

Love can heal a broken heart.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Schumann, Robert

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.