Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Moses, Grandma

Best Quotes about Art

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Tynan, Kenneth

10.

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

Mann, Horace

11.

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

12.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

13.

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

14.

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

15.

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

16.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

17.

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

18.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

19.

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

20.

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

21.

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

22.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

23.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

25.

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

26.

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

27.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

30.

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

Jacob, Max

31.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

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

Brancusi, Constantin

33.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

34.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

35.

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

36.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

37.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

38.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

39.

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

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

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

Kooning, Willem De

42.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

43.

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

44.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

45.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

46.

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

Duke Ellington

47.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry