Motivational Quotes

Art

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Art

1.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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.

Love can heal a broken heart.

5.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

6.

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

7.

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

8.

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

9.

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

Conrad, Joseph

10.

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

11.

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

12.

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

13.

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

14.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

15.

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

Keller, Helen

16.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

17.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

18.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

19.

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

Picasso, Pablo

20.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

21.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

22.

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

23.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

24.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

25.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

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

David Cronenberg

27.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

28.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

29.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

30.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

31.

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

32.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

36.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

37.

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

38.

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

39.

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

41.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

42.

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

43.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

Pascal, Blaise

45.

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

46.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.