Motivational Quotes

Art

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

- Winkelmann

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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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 is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Camus, Albert

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.