Motivational Quotes

Art

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

- William Baziotes

Best Quotes about Art

1.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

2.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

3.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

4.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

5.

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

Piero Milani

6.

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

7.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

11.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

12.

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

13.

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

14.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

15.

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

16.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Andre Gide

18.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

19.

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

Driscoll, Louise

20.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

23.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

24.

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

25.

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

Pablo Picasso

26.

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

27.

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

Al Capp

28.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

29.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

30.

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

35.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

36.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

38.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

39.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

40.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

41.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

42.

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

43.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

44.

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

45.

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

46.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

48.

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