Art Motivation Quotes

#1. The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me.

Kirtida Gautam

#2. Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Antony Gormley

#3. The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

Steven Pressfield

#4. If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something.

Kamal Ravikant

#5. The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

Steven Pressfield

#6. 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

#7. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. You see, from where I stand, there are a couple of ways. You continue your journey and you will find your path or the path is already there and you aren't just able to see it.

Ackshat Deoli

#9. Anyone interested in your product is not interested because of your state of the art features; they're interested because of the outcome it creates. It's a simple rule of buyer motivation. Consider

Rob Falcone

#10. Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life's journey and with Elemental's Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.

Luther E. Vann

#11. The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.

Richie Norton

#12. Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#13. No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Rob Liano

#14. My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

Damien Chazelle

#15. The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

Sebastian Horsley

#16. Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before ... without them noticing.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.

Orison Swett Marden

#18. Celebrate your life now, as it unfolds.
Turn away from judgement and negative theories about your worth, your potential, and your destiny. See what you already have.

Danny Gregory

#19. Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

Charlotte Eriksson

#20. The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

Paul Gauguin

#21. Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

JR

#22. Anyone can learn how to draw.

Liron Yankonsky

#23. I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

A.R. Rahman

#24. I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Jeff Koons

#25. Never look back. The past is done. The future is a blank canvas. Work on creating a masterpiece. Only you have the power to make your painting beautiful.

Suzy Kassem

#26. Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

Chuck Close

#27. The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

Stephanie Lennox

#28. You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

Mallika Sarabhai

#29. That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

James Taylor

#30. The zenith of the peak of mountains has to be balanced by the nadir of the depth of the seas.

Ackshat Deoli

#31. The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

Charlton Heston

#32. As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Ruth Benedict

#33. The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.

Claire Messud