Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

- Tzara, Tristan

Best Quotes about Art

1.

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

2.

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

3.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

4.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

5.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

6.

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

7.

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

Zola, Emile

8.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

10.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

11.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

12.

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

Brancusi, Constantin

13.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

14.

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

Warhol, Andy

15.

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

16.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

19.

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.

20.

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

Anderson, Judith

21.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

22.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

24.

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

25.

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

Mann, Horace

26.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

27.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

28.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

30.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

31.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

35.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

37.

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

Morris, William

38.

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

39.

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