MOTIVATIONAL ART QUOTES BY THE FAMOUS ARTISTS AND GREAT PAINTERS - a selection
Motivational quotes by the famous artist, because the artists offer us motivational power by reading their quotes about life and creating art; click a name you want to read:
JOSEF ALBERS - CARL ANDRE - KAREL APPEL - HANS ARP - WILLIAM BAZIOTES -
JOSEF ALBERS, his motivational quotes:
* Amateurism is an emptiness and I accept it because it has no preconceived ideas or rules to be applied. This is for me (as a art teacher!, fh) a most welcome situation and I like to keep my students amateurs and dilettantes.
* The source of art – that is, where it comes from – is the discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect. That’s what I’m talking about. When I want to speak about why I am doing the same thing now, which is squares, for – how long? – 19 years. Because there is no final solution in any visual formulation.
(more motivational quotes by Josef Albers in art quotes, Albers)
CARL ANDRE, his motivational quotes:
* …the important thing about art is how it stimulates us. I think the more you are stimulated by more different kinds of art, the more demanding you’re going to become on the level of your stimulation. The key to art is experience of it and proximity to it.
* I think maybe art emerged when man first began to distinguish himself from nature. Art is part of himself, which he returns perhaps as an homage to the nature which he left. Of course, he never left nature. The rise of consciousness, perhaps… …The main thing we believe, that separated us from not only animals but from the stones, is the fact that we are not stones, that we are not dogs.
(more motivational artist quotes by Carl Andre in art quotes, Andre)
KAREL APPEL, his motivational quotes:
* - Every day I have to be awake to escape… …The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.
* - The experience of the moment is what’s important, and somehow the image, the ‘thing’ is left over.
(more motivational artist quotes of Karel Appel in art quotes, Appel)
HANS ARP, his motivational quotes:
* We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit and does not itself reproduce. We want to produce directly and without meditation.
* The death of a picture no longer make me despair. In creating the picture I began to try to incorporate its disappearance and it death, and included them in the composition.
* These painting, these sculptures – these objects – should remain anonymous, in the great workshop of nature, like the clouds, the mountains, the seas, the animals, and man himself. Yes! Man should go back to nature! Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.- These painting, these sculptures – these objects – should remain anonymous, in the great workshop of nature, like the clouds, the mountains, the seas, the animals, and man himself. Yes! Man should go back to nature! Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.
(more motivational artist quotes by Hans Arp in art quotes, Hans Arp)
WILLIAM BAZIOTES, his motivational quotes:
* Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men’s lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.
* Today it’s possible to paint one canvas with the calmness of an ancient Greek and the next with the anxiety of a Van Gogh. Either of these emotions, and any in between, is valid to me…
(more motivational quotes by William Baziotes in art quotes, Baziotes)
MAX BECKMANN, his motivational quotes:
* …all important things in art since Ur of the Chaldees, since Tel Halaf and Crete, have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being. Self-realization is the urge of all objective spirits… … Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement, for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our Ego that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.
* Be a child of your age. Be naturalistic against your own ego. Be matter-of-fact toward your inner visions.
(more motivational artist quotes by Max Beckmann in art quotes, Beckmann)
JOSEPH BEUYS, his motivational quotes:
* Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms… …I would say man does not consist only of chemical processes, but also of metaphysical occurrences. The provocateur of the chemical processes is located outside the world. Man is only truly alive when he realizes he is a creative, artistic being… …Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act.
* But one is forced to translate thought into action and action into object… …I am not a teacher who tells his students only to think. I say: act; do something: I ask for result. It may take different forms. It can have the form of sound, or someone can do a book, make a drawing or a sculpture. I don’t care…
(more motivational artist quotes by Joseph Beuys in art quotes, Beuys)
UMBERTO BOCCIONI, his motivational quotes:
* The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.
* Not only have we radically abandoned the motive fully developed according to its determined and, therefore, artificial equilibrium, but we suddenly and purposely intersect each motif with one or more other motifs of which we never give the full development but merely the initial, central, of final notes… …We thus arrived at what we call the painting of states of mind.
(more motivational artist quotes of Umberto Boccioni in art quotes, Umberto)
GEORGES BRAQUE, his motivational quotes:
* The subject is not the object; it is a new unity, a lyricism which grows completely from the means.
* I wrote about this moreover ‘When a still life is no longer within reach, it ceases to be a still life…‘ …For me that expressed the desire I have always had to touch a thing, not just to look at it. It was that space that attracted me strongly, for that was the earliest Cubist painting – the quest for space.
* What do I mean by ‘poetry’? It is to a painting what life is to man… … For me it is a matter of harmony, of rapports, of rhythm and – most important for my own work – of ‘metamorphosis.
(more motivational artist quotes of Georges Braque in art quotes, Braque)
ANDRÉ BRETON, his motivational quotes:
* Put yourself in the most passive, or receptive, state you can. Forget about your genius, your talents, and those of everyone else.. tell yourself that literature is the saddest path that leads to everything. Write quickly, without a preconceived subject, fast enough not to remember and not to be tempted to read over what you have written.
* The mind of the man who dreams is fully satisfied by what happens to him. The agonizing question of possibility is no longer pertinent. Kill, fly faster, love to your heart’s content. And if you should die, are you not certain of reawaking among the dead? Let yourself be carried along, events will not tolerate your interference. You are nameless. The ease of everything is priceless.
* Go on as long as you like. Put your trust in the inexhaustible nature of the murmur. If silence threatens to settle in if you should ever happen to make a mistake - a mistake, perhaps due to carelessness - break off without hesitation with an overly clear line. Following a word the origin of which seems suspicious to you, place any letter whatsoever, the letter “l” for example, always the letter “l,” and bring the arbitrary back by making this letter the first of the following word.
(more motivational quotes of the artist André Breton in art quotes, Breton)
PAUL CÉZANNE, his motivational quotes:
* Nature is not on the surface; it is in the depths. Colours are an expression of these depths on the surface. They rise from the roots of the world.
* …Painting is first and foremost an optical affaire. The stuff of our art is there, in what our eyes are thinking… …If you respect nature, it will always unravel it’s meaning for you.
* … to live that life, half human and half divine, which is the life of art or, if you will.… the life of god. The landscape is reflected, humanized, rationalized within me. I objectives it, project it, fix it on my canvas…
* Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. That’s why colour appears so entirely dramatic, to true painters.
* I still work with difficulty, but I seem to get along. That is the important thing to me. Sensations form the foundation of my work, and they are imperishable, I think. Moreover, I am getting rid of that devil who, as you know, used to stand behind me and forced me at will to “imitate”; he’s not even dangerous any more. (a week later Cezanne died)
(more motivational quotes of the artist Paul Cézanne in art quotes, Cézannne)
MARC CHAGALL, his motivational quotes:
* Or is all this fuss actually important for art history? Oh, no, never. If things only ever originated as a result of such competition (between subject and subject less art, fh) , it wouldn’t be worth living among them, like an accidental, capricious toy. Clearly there is a greater, a more serene and more modest power, but we are either too lazy to live by its laws, or we have no time, or it ‘hurts too much’.
(more motivational quotes of the artist Marc Chagall in art quotes, Chagall)
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, his motivational quotes:
* More important still, we must hold enormous faith in ourselves; it is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means ‘absolutely nothing’ from the logical point of vue… …should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint…
* What I hear is valueless; only what I see is living, and when I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.
* To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.
(more of his motivational quotes you can find in artist quotes, De Chirico.)
