Motivational Quotes

Art

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

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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.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Pascal, Blaise

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Al Capp

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Frost, Robert

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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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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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Peri, Gabriel

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