Top 1200 Inspirational Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by enabling people to know reality...Art is a necessity because it is a way of knowing...Is the need for truth physiological? Art exists out of time...images may be different bu there is always a repetition- a thread.

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

The most inspirational person in my life has been my mother.

guys have feelings too. But like...who cares? -Inspirational poster

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this experience, you have to really go back to the fundamentals.

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When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

The 'Dezeen's of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more.

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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.

There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.

The hymn 'Amazing Grace' is so inspirational - I wish I'd written it.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Public art is a unique type of art. It's very different to gallery art because it is something that we pass by every day and it inevitably creates a lot of discussion in a way that gallery art does not.

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

We have outstanding schools, world-class teaching and inspirational leadership across the country.

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

I write down inspirational things on cards that I keep in my bag and look at during the round.

Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.

Becoming mature is not important for art. Technical perfection is not relevant to art. Precision in art is only achieved by total duty of loyalty. Love, lusciousness, birth and fertility are precise tools of art, like laws.

I'm lucky to have so many supportive, inspirational people in my life.

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

I think that a lot of artists have succeeded in making what I might call "curator's art." Everybody's being accepted, and I always want to say, "Really? That's what you've come for? To make art that looks a lot like somebody else's art?" If I am thinking of somebody else's art in front of your art, that's a problem.

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

There's so much art and it's gotten so flashy. In the global marketplace, having art that's shiny and has neon lights is almost what you need for anyone to notice it in an art fair situation - and art fairs seem to be more and more the only thing there is.

People like the feeling of access that is very raw, unedited, and inspirational.

I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

I'm just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art, painting was art, and I've tried to keep that cultural vibe to my life.

Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

Some people don't think that what I do is art - but for me art exists by definition. The beautiful and most liberating thing about being an artist is the ability to say that what I make is art. Art exists because the author says so.