Motivational Quotes

Art

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

- Holyfield, Evander

Best Quotes about Art

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

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Al Capp

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Peri, Gabriel

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bangs, Lester

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Updike, John

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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.

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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 artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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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, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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