Motivational Quotes

Art

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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)

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.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Jovovich, Milla

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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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

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

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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

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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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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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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav