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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Kael, Pauline

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Morris, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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 artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Klee, Paul

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Piero Milani

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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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