Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

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

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Simonides

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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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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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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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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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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

M. C. Richards

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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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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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold