Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Moses, Grandma

Best Quotes about Art

1.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

2.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

3.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

4.

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

Warhol, Andy

5.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

6.

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

7.

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

8.

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

9.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Novalis

11.

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

Zola, Emile

12.

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

Wilson, Robert

13.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

14.

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

Midler, Bette

15.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

16.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

17.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

18.

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

19.

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

20.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

21.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

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

Buckingham, Duke of

24.

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

25.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

26.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

29.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

31.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

32.

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

Jackson Pollock

33.

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Ward Jenkins

39.

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

Melville, Herman

40.

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

G. K. Chesterton

41.

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

Burroughs, William S.

42.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

43.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

47.

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

Anderson, Judith

48.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

50.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria