Motivational Quotes

Art

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

- Trilling, Lionel

Best Quotes about Art

1.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

2.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

3.

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

4.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

5.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

6.

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

7.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

9.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

10.

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

Paz, Octavio

11.

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

12.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

15.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

16.

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

Jacob, Max

17.

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

18.

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

Walt Whitman

19.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

21.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

22.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

23.

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.

24.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

25.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

26.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

27.

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

Novalis

28.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

29.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

30.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

31.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

32.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

34.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

35.

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

36.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

37.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

40.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

41.

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

42.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

43.

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

44.

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

45.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

46.

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

Ward Jenkins

48.

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

Brancusi, Constantin

49.

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

50.

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