Motivational Quotes

Art

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.

Best Quotes about Art

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Blackie, Professor

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Ovid

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Camus, Albert

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Morris, William

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

Piet Mondrian

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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

Schumann, Robert

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Haldane, John B. S.

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Anderson, Bill

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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