Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Art

1.

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

2.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

3.

Love can heal a broken heart.

4.

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

5.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

6.

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

7.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

8.

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

9.

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

10.

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

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

Duke Ellington

12.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

13.

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

14.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

15.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

16.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Jeff Melvoin

19.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

20.

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

21.

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

Novalis

22.

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

William Baziotes

23.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

24.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

25.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

26.

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

27.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

28.

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

29.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

30.

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

31.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

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

33.

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

34.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

35.

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

Riding, Laura

36.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma