Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

M. C. Richards

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Simonides

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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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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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.

Faulkner, William

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gill, Eric

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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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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 has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo