Top 100 Art Inspirational Quotes
#1. Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)
Charles Dickens
#2. The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#3. Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.
Seth Godin
#5. Insomnia is the act of pushing through sleep to achieve the art of insane creativity.
Todd Stocker
#6. English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.
Dean Wesley Smith
#8. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer
William Shakespeare
#9. The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't
Simon S. Tam
#10. We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.
Asger Jorn
#12. I believe dreams connect us to our ancestors and it is through creativity that we can tap into this in the conscious state. Creativity is a sort of trance that we have as artists that erases time and space.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
#14. Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality.
Debasish Mridha
#15. We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#16. Follow your heart as long as you live ... Bring your whole heart towards excellence ... And no limit may be set to art.
The Instruction Of Ptahhotop
#17. The ability to start out upon your own impulse is
fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own
terms ... Getting started, keeping going, getting started
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
Seamus Heaney
#18. He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
Boris Pasternak
#19. Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
Oscar Wilde
#22. Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
John Cheever
#24. Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.
William Ash
#25. We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#26. Style is art and fashion is everything. Personal expression should reflect the best of who you are and respected without being misunderstood.
Steven Cuoco
#27. The art of teaching lies in communicating the mystery of the universe without taking the mystery out of it.
Dane R. Pascoe
#28. You become free like you always dreamed, yet you realise that every land is different and you do not belong anywhere yet you live everywhere and that we all share the same lands except you seem to be the only one who realises this fact
Yolanda De Iuliis
#29. You are your art
Your are your song
You are your craft.
You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream;
Priscilla Koranteng
#30. To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business - not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into ... rhetoric and plot.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice
Roberto Benigni La Vita E Bella
#33. The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#34. I want constructive energy generated by every brushstroke and between every line.
Siren Waroe
#35. The object of art is to give life a light through which you can imagine and see the world.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself.
Brandi L. Bates
#37. Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#38. If we don't learn the art of patience and trust, we will end up assuming that we are a failure.
Abhishek Krishnan
#40. My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
#41. My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be
Vicki Alayne Bradley
#42. Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation.
Debasish Mridha
#43. The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight
Joshua Teya
#44. Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies.
Gerard De Marigny
#45. What pleases is what is terrible, gentle, and poetic.
Georges Franju
#46. Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.
Jaeda DeWalt
#48. All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her cigarette. 'Maybe better.'
'Why's that?'
'Art doesn't kill anyone.
Ellen Klages
#49. Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
Karl Lagerfeld
#51. Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.
Carolyn V. Hamilton
#52. YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT
Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
Miguel Ruiz
#54. Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.
A.D. Posey
#55. We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.
Jean Genet
#57. Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.
David Whyte
#58. Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.
Maroon 5
#59. The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.
Charles Baudelaire
#61. The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.
Nikki Rowe
#62. The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive. Feelings rather than facts predominate. "Art" when it is opposed to "Science" is often romantic. It does not proceed by reason or by laws. It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience.
Robert M. Pirsig
#63. Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Paul Hawken
#64. Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.
Brian Keene
#65. Art expresses those unexplainable thoughts of our soul.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes ... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.
Joss Whedon
#67. The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#68. My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process.
Jaeda DeWalt
#69. Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
T.D. Jakes
#70. Life is a canvas, so make your life as an ageless art. Everybody will be able to look at it and enjoy it. And, with time, it will get more valuable.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Reach - The art of relentlessly pursuing a divine assigned goal or objective beyond expectations.
Catherine Crumber
#72. The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.
Christian Michael
#73. To sought out solace within yourself is the most difficult challenge and is quickly ignored by many, thus can only be achieved when you find truth within oneself
Yolanda De Iuliis
#74. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#75. How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
Kermit The Frog
#77. We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.
Camille Paglia
#78. For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.
Toni Morrison
#79. All life is an art of yourself, so draw it carefully to make it the best.
Debasish Mridha
#80. A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
George Bernard Shaw
#81. At no other time or place in human history have social conflicts been so richly diverse, so vigorously articulated, so eloquently manifest in art and literature or adressed with such directness by the political system and the media.
Ramachandra Guha
#82. I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
#83. Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas.
She was a walking piece of art. Words and all.
Candace Knoebel
#84. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
Steven Pressfield
#85. I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.
Hollace M. Metzger
#86. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#87. A picture is a fleeting moment of life preserved on a canvas.
Debasish Mridha
#88. Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.
Dion Fortune
#89. The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it.
Stephen Koch
#90. Praise excites my ego; love touches my heart.
I am in love with the universe and I praise nature's art.
Debasish Mridha
#91. People look at a chair and say, "It's just a chair," but I like to think it's more than a chair. I like to seek deeper meaning in things, even inanimate things. I know this makes me sound like a complete nutcase, but (a) I swear I'm not, and (b) it's just an example.
Connor Franta
#92. Art is a language which everyone understands in their own way.
Debasish Mridha
#93. The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
Don Roff
#94. We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted.
Carrie Brownstein
#95. Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.
Bonnie Kelso
#96. Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.
Iimani David
#97. Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
Hippocrates
#98. Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Through art we can see the reflection of the inner world of an artist.
Debasish Mridha
#100. Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.
Debasish Mridha
