Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Art

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Art is a form of catharsis.

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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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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 don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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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

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell