Motivational Quotes

Art

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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