Motivational Quotes

Art

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Art

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

10.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

11.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

12.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

13.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

Berle, Adolf

16.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

17.

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

Murdoch, Iris

18.

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

19.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

22.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

23.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

26.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

27.

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

Paz, Octavio

28.

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

29.

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

30.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

31.

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

32.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

33.

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

34.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

35.

Love can heal a broken heart.

36.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

37.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

38.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

41.

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

44.

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

45.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

46.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

47.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

48.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

49.

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