Motivational Quotes

Art

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

1.

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

2.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

3.

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

George Tooker

4.

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

5.

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

Picasso, Pablo

6.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

7.

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

9.

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

West, Rebecca

10.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

13.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

14.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

15.

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

Yu Cao

16.

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

Connolly, Cyril

17.

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

18.

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

19.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

21.

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

Truman, Harry S

22.

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

23.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

24.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

25.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

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

Gide, Andre

27.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Anderson, Bill

29.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

34.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

35.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

36.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

37.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

38.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

39.

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

40.

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

41.

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

G. K. Chesterton

42.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

Zola, Emile

44.

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