Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

1.

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

Anderson, Bill

2.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

3.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

4.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

5.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

6.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

7.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

9.

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

10.

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

Ben Shahn

11.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

12.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

13.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

14.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

15.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

16.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

17.

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

Bible

18.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

20.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

21.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

22.

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

Duke Ellington

23.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

24.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

25.

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

26.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

27.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

28.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

29.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

30.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

33.

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

34.

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

Kooning, Willem De

35.

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

37.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

39.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

43.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

44.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

45.

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

46.

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

47.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

48.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.