Quotes about Art and Inspiration(I will be adding to this as I come across more inspiration)
These are quotes I find interesting and inspiring. If you have your own favorites, feel free to comment. If any of these quotes are "misquoted" or if I have given credit to the wrong creator then feel free to let me know.
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A critic wrote of Nadar's (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) portraits in 1859:
-French Art Critic Philippe Burty
"They demonstrate that an intelligent man uses his brains as well as his camera and that if photography is by no means a complete art, the photographer always has the right to be an artist”
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"Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue"
-Jules Feiffer
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Note:I have heard that the origin of this quote is from the Mongol army, Genghis Khan, it is an ancient Arabian Proverb and Alexander the Great was quoted saying what I have posted below. You can decide for yourself who the creator was. I, myself, like to believe it was said by the Mongol Army.
"An army of donkeys led by a lion will defeat an army of lions led by a donkey"
-Mongol Army
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion"
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"That Instant of understanding that puts you in touch with the model - helps you sum him up, guides you to his habits, his ideas, and character and enables you to produce... a really convincing portrait"
-Gaspard Felix Tournachon (Known as Nadar)
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"One might say that concrete art is to abstraction, what veganism is to vegetarianism"
-http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/abstract-art.htm#curvilinear
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"If you're in a band or you're an artist out there, don't give up on your dreams. Just keep fighting and your dreams will come true some day."
-Bert McCracken from "The Used" on the 2003 live album "Maybe Memories". Track 4, "Say Days Ago - Live".
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-Jim Morrison
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"Artists paint for the love of Art; many of them sacrifice their lives for the love of art, as you may recollect; collectors fight in competition and pay for the love of art."
-Mataichi Miya
- Miya, M. (1923). What Is Art? The North American Review, 217(811), 829-833. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25113044
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Mike Wallace: Herb Brodkin, who was a TV producer who was associated with some of your earlier plays has said this about you, he said, "Rod is either going to stay commercial, or become a discerning artist but not both."
Rod Sterling: I remember the quote, he gave it to Gilbert Millstein when Millstein was doing a profile on me in the New York Times. I didn't understand it at the time, I fail to achieve any degree of understanding in the ensuing years which are three in number. I presume Herb means that inherently you cannot be commercial and artistic, you cannot be commercial and quality, you cannot be commercial concurrent with having a preoccupation with the level of story telling that you want to achieve. And this I have to reject, I think you can be, I don't think calling something commercial tags it with kind of an odious suggestion that it stinks, that its something raunchy, to be ashamed of. I don't think, if you say commercial means to be publicly acceptable, whats wrong with that? As long as...the essence of my argument is that, as long as you are not ashamed of anything you write, be if you are a writer, as long as you are not ashamed of anything you perform if you are an actor, and I am not ashamed of doing a television series. I could have done, probably, 30 or 40 film series over the past five years. I presume I've turned down, at least, that many with great guarantees of cash, with great guarantees of financial security but I turned them down because I didn't like them, I did not think they were quality and God knows they were commercial. But I think what Herb says, is the suggestion, made by many people is, you cant have public acceptance and still be artistic. And as I say, I have to reject that.
-Rod Sterling
-The Mike Wallace Interview featuring Rod Serling (1959)
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I realized that from now on the hero is the person that inspires us to think again about our own moral compass and our own and our own responsibility as global citizens.
Planton
Photographer
Abstract: The Art of Design Season 1: Ep. 7 Planton: Photography
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“If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.
If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.
Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art.” ―
"I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all."
-Neil Gaiman
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A critic wrote of Nadar's (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) portraits in 1859:
-French Art Critic Philippe Burty
"They demonstrate that an intelligent man uses his brains as well as his camera and that if photography is by no means a complete art, the photographer always has the right to be an artist”
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"Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue"
-Jules Feiffer
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Note:I have heard that the origin of this quote is from the Mongol army, Genghis Khan, it is an ancient Arabian Proverb and Alexander the Great was quoted saying what I have posted below. You can decide for yourself who the creator was. I, myself, like to believe it was said by the Mongol Army.
"An army of donkeys led by a lion will defeat an army of lions led by a donkey"
-Mongol Army
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion"
-Alexander the Great
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"That Instant of understanding that puts you in touch with the model - helps you sum him up, guides you to his habits, his ideas, and character and enables you to produce... a really convincing portrait"
-Gaspard Felix Tournachon (Known as Nadar)
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"One might say that concrete art is to abstraction, what veganism is to vegetarianism"
-http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/abstract-art.htm#curvilinear
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"If you're in a band or you're an artist out there, don't give up on your dreams. Just keep fighting and your dreams will come true some day."
-Bert McCracken from "The Used" on the 2003 live album "Maybe Memories". Track 4, "Say Days Ago - Live".
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"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom."
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"Artists paint for the love of Art; many of them sacrifice their lives for the love of art, as you may recollect; collectors fight in competition and pay for the love of art."
-Mataichi Miya
- Miya, M. (1923). What Is Art? The North American Review, 217(811), 829-833. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25113044
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Mike Wallace: Herb Brodkin, who was a TV producer who was associated with some of your earlier plays has said this about you, he said, "Rod is either going to stay commercial, or become a discerning artist but not both."
Rod Sterling: I remember the quote, he gave it to Gilbert Millstein when Millstein was doing a profile on me in the New York Times. I didn't understand it at the time, I fail to achieve any degree of understanding in the ensuing years which are three in number. I presume Herb means that inherently you cannot be commercial and artistic, you cannot be commercial and quality, you cannot be commercial concurrent with having a preoccupation with the level of story telling that you want to achieve. And this I have to reject, I think you can be, I don't think calling something commercial tags it with kind of an odious suggestion that it stinks, that its something raunchy, to be ashamed of. I don't think, if you say commercial means to be publicly acceptable, whats wrong with that? As long as...the essence of my argument is that, as long as you are not ashamed of anything you write, be if you are a writer, as long as you are not ashamed of anything you perform if you are an actor, and I am not ashamed of doing a television series. I could have done, probably, 30 or 40 film series over the past five years. I presume I've turned down, at least, that many with great guarantees of cash, with great guarantees of financial security but I turned them down because I didn't like them, I did not think they were quality and God knows they were commercial. But I think what Herb says, is the suggestion, made by many people is, you cant have public acceptance and still be artistic. And as I say, I have to reject that.
-Rod Sterling
-The Mike Wallace Interview featuring Rod Serling (1959)
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I realized that from now on the hero is the person that inspires us to think again about our own moral compass and our own and our own responsibility as global citizens.
Planton
Photographer
Abstract: The Art of Design Season 1: Ep. 7 Planton: Photography
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“If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.
If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.
Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art.” ―
"I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all."
-Neil Gaiman
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