Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Art

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Kempis, Thomas

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Pascal, Blaise

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen