Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Art

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Morris, William

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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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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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris