Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Kronenberger, Louis

Best Quotes about Art

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Novalis

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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 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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Gide, Andre

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

West, Rebecca

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

Riding, Laura

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa