Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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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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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Updike, John

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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.