Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Burroughs, William S.

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

Ionesco, Eugene

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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 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 consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Frost, Robert

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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

Midler, Bette

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark