Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Anderson, Judith

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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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 would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

Motherwell, Robert

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Frye, Northrop

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, 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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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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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 a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

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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 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