Motivational Quotes
Art
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Best Quotes about Art
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Arp, Jean
The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.
Smith, Dean
I am an artist I am here to live out loud.
Zola, Emile
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Morris, William
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
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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.
Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.
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
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Blackie, Professor
The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Gordon, George
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
Jeff Melvoin
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Capp, Al
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
Rich, Adrienne
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
Castaneda, Carlos
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Buckingham, Duke of
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Elizabeth Bowen
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
Kronenberger, Louis
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Warhol, Andy
Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Eliot, T. S.
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Ginsberg, Allen
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
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
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Dubuffet, Jean
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
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
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Frye, Northrop
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Riding, Laura
Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
Kempis, Thomas
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
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, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Camus, Albert
Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
William Baziotes
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
Rand, Ayn
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
George Tooker
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
West, Rebecca
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
Miller, Henry
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
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Kooning, Willem De
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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