Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Ionesco, Eugene

Best Quotes about Art

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Proverb

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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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

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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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.

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Frye, Northrop

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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

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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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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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