Motivational Quotes

Art

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Art

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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

Jacob, Max

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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

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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

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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Gill, Eric

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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 flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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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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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington