Motivational Quotes

Art

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

- Beck

Best Quotes about Art

1.

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

2.

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

3.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

4.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

6.

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

Truman, Harry S

7.

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

8.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

9.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

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

Lowell, James Russell

11.

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

Duke Ellington

12.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

15.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Gutzkow

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

19.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

20.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

22.

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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

26.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

28.

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

West, Rebecca

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

32.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

33.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

34.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

35.

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.

36.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

41.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

42.

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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

Cassady, Neal

45.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

46.

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

47.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

48.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

49.

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

50.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao