Motivational Quotes

Art

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

- Parker, Theodore

Best Quotes about Art

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

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Varese, Edward

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

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Piet Mondrian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Schumann, Robert

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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.