Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Morris, William

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

10.

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

Yu Cao

11.

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

12.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

13.

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

14.

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

Piet Mondrian

15.

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

Simonides

16.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

19.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

21.

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

22.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

23.

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

24.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

25.

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

26.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

27.

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

28.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

29.

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

George Tooker

30.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

31.

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

32.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

33.

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

34.

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

35.

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

Camus, Albert

36.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

37.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

39.

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.

40.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

41.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

42.

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

43.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

44.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

45.

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

46.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

47.

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