Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Piet Mondrian

Best Quotes about Art

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

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Picasso, Pablo

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Morris, William

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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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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Shakespeare, William

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney