Motivational Quotes

Art

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

- Kooning, Willem De

Best Quotes about Art

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

Holyfield, Evander

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

10.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

13.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

14.

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

Ben Shahn

15.

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

16.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

17.

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

18.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

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

20.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

21.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

22.

Love can heal a broken heart.

23.

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

24.

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

25.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

26.

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

27.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

28.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

29.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

30.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

31.

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

32.

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

34.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

40.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

41.

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

42.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

44.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

45.

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

46.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

47.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

48.

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

49.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tynan, Kenneth