Motivational Quotes

Art

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Art

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Pascal, Blaise

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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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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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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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Updike, John

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix