Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Piero Milani

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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

West, Rebecca

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

Piet Mondrian

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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 an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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.

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

30.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Simonides

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.