Motivational Quotes

Art

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Frost, Robert

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Piet Mondrian

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Anderson, Judith

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen