Motivational Quotes

Art

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

- Nickolas Muray

Best Quotes about Art

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Anderson, Lindsay

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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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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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

Simonides

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

M. C. Richards

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Moses, Grandma

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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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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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis