Motivational Quotes

Art

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Art

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

Bible

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, Chinese

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Baudelaire, Charles

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Driscoll, Louise

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Berle, Adolf

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Ruckett

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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Peri, Gabriel