Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Ionesco, Eugene

Best Quotes about Art

1.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

2.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

3.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

4.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

5.

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

6.

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

7.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

8.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

9.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

10.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

11.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

12.

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

13.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

14.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

15.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

16.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

17.

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

18.

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

19.

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

West, Rebecca

20.

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

21.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

22.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

23.

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

24.

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

Piet Mondrian

25.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

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

William Baziotes

27.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Ben Shahn

29.

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

30.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

32.

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

Berle, Adolf

33.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

34.

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

Gutzkow

35.

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

Walt Whitman

36.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

37.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

40.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

41.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

42.

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