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

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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

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

Frost, Robert

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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

18.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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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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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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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

33.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

34.

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

35.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

38.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

46.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent