Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Frye, Northrop

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

G. K. Chesterton

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Blackie, Professor

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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

Peri, Gabriel

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Picasso, Pablo

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.