Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Cather, Willa

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Chopra, Deepak

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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.

Melville, Herman

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Cassady, Neal

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

30.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jacob, Max

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.