Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Art

1.

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

2.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

3.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

4.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

5.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

6.

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

7.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

8.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

9.

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Conrad, Joseph

12.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

14.

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

Duke Ellington

15.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

16.

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

17.

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

Morris, William

18.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

21.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

22.

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

Al Capp

23.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

24.

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

Brancusi, Constantin

25.

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

Piero Milani

26.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

27.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

28.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

29.

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

Anderson, Bill

30.

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

31.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

32.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

33.

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

Schumann, Robert

34.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

35.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

36.

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

Kooning, Willem De

37.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

38.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Yu Cao

42.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

43.

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

44.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

45.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

46.

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

47.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

48.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

49.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

50.

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

Brown, John Mason