Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Art

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Gide, Andre

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Anderson, Bill

11.

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

12.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

13.

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

14.

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

15.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

16.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

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

19.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

21.

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

Buckingham, Duke of

22.

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

23.

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

24.

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

Arp, Jean

25.

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

Pablo Picasso

26.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

27.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

28.

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

David Cronenberg

29.

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

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

Connolly, Cyril

31.

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

Frye, Northrop

32.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

33.

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.

34.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

35.

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

36.

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

37.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

38.

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

39.

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

Barenboim, Daniel

40.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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