Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Art

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

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Yu Cao

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

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Schumann, Robert

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Updike, John

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell