Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Art

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Kronenberger, Louis

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Klee, Paul

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Berle, Adolf

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Piero Milani

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