Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Art

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

Pascal, Blaise

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Jacob, Max

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

West, Rebecca

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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, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.