Motivational Quotes

Art

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Art

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

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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 attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Blackie, Professor

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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