Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

- Morris, William

Best Quotes about Art

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Eliot, T. S.

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Kempis, Thomas

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

10.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

12.

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

13.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

14.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

15.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

16.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

17.

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

18.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

20.

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

21.

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

22.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

23.

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

24.

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

25.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

26.

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

27.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

28.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

29.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

30.

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

31.

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

Ben Shahn

32.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

33.

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

Brown, John Mason

34.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

35.

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

Gutzkow

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.

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

Piet Mondrian

38.

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

39.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

40.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

42.

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

43.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

44.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

46.

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

Warhol, Andy

47.

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

Jackson Pollock

48.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

49.

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