Motivational Quotes

Art

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Art

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

Camus, Albert

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

10.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

12.

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

G. K. Chesterton

13.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

14.

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

15.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

17.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

18.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

19.

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

20.

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.

21.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

22.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

23.

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

24.

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

Ben Shahn

25.

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

26.

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

Berle, Adolf

27.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

31.

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

32.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

33.

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

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Duke Ellington

36.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

37.

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

39.

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

Ruskin, John

40.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

41.

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

42.

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

Picasso, Pablo

43.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

44.

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

45.

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

46.

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

Morris, William

47.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.