Motivational Quotes
Art
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.

Best Quotes about Art
It is either easy or impossible.
Dali, Salvador
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
Holyfield, Evander
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
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
Winkelmann
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Berle, Adolf
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Woodberry, George E.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Dubuffet, Jean
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
Art is a form of catharsis.
Parker, Dorothy
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
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
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Jacob, Max
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
David Cronenberg
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
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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
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
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.
Durrell, Lawrence
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.
Nickolas Muray
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
George Tooker
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
Kierkegaard, S°ren
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Ruskin, John
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
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
Hare, David
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Paz, Octavio
If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.
Francis De Sales, St.
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
Jeff Melvoin
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
Sontag, Susan
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Murdoch, Iris
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
Rosenberg, Harold
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Fischer, Ernst
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
Wilde, Oscar
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Weil, Simone
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Morris, William
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.
Rumi, Jalal-Uddin
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
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Hockney, David
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Ionesco, Eugene
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Schnitzler, Arthur
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
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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