Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

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

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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

Bangs, Lester

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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