Motivation is the process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviors. It is the process of stimulating people to action to accomplish the goals. So, we all need motivation at some point of time in our life to achieve our goals. These are some motivational quotes by great artists.
1.”The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” — Vincent van Gogh
2. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” — Alberto Giacometti
3. “The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet
4. “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miró
5. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci
6. “I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.” – Yayoi Kusama
7. “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
8. “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí
9. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
10. “You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
11. “I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat
12. “I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
13. “I am independent! I can live and I love to work.” – Mary Cassatt
14. “There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky
15. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
16. “If we go for the easy way, we never change.” – Marina Abramović
17. “He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.” ― Pablo Picasso
18. “Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.” – Edvard Munch
19. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” ― Pablo Picasso
20. “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
21. “Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.” — Rembrandt van Rijn
22. “I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.” – Andy Goldsworthy
23. “The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.” ― Vincent van Gogh
24. “Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.” ― Henri Matisse
25. “Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.” – Magdalena Abakanowicz
26. “Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.” – Edvard Munch
27. “I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
28. “Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe
29. “Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.” – ― Salvador Dali
30. “The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.” – ― Salvador Dali
31. “All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.” – Theaster Gates
32. “The one thing the world will never have enough of is outrageous.” ― Salvador Dalí
33. “The important thing is somehow to begin.” — Henry Moore
34. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ― Salvador Dalí
35. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo da Vinci
36. “People also leave a presence in a place even when they are no longer there.“ – Andy Goldsworthy
37. “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
38. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
39. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.”― Leonardo Da Vinci
40. “Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
41. “Embrace the honesty of imperfection and you will be unstoppable.” ― Alice Bag
42. “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
43. “Don’t stand when you can sit; don’t sit when you can lie down.”― Martha Graham
44. “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” ― Leonardo Da Vinci
45. “You are a breathtaking work of art, far too brilliant to be hidden, far too beautiful to be broken.” ― Sai Pradeep
46. “That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.” ― Iris Murdoch
47. “Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.” ― Iris Murdoch
48. “The first Image of a Black Hole is a clear-cut Form of Art!” ― Khalid Masood
49. “Art is anything that sends you back to yourself.” ― Sai Pradeep
50. “Art is wood that has fewer branches than science but its roots are deeper than in science.” ― David Berkowitz Chicago
51. “Crafting your work beats being told what to do.” ― Richie Norton
52. “Art is not a democracy. People don’t get to vote on how it ends.”― George R.R. Martin
53. “Art turned out to be an extremely happy accident.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
54. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” ― Pablo Picasso
55. “Speaking a beautiful lie is a great art, which is often presented to us in the form of fiction.” ― Awdhesh Singh
56. “The highest art is the art of putting peaceful steps on the earth, so that entire cosmos get rejuvenated by each step.” ― Amit Ray
57. “The way of an artist is an entirely different way. It is a way of surrender.” ― Agnes Martin
58. “Least of all should the artist be held responsible for the fate which befalls his works.” ― Sigmund Freud
59. “When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them” ― Adrienne Rich
60. “Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.” ― Abbas Kiarostami
61. “Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out.” ― Pam Allyn
62. “Art is not a toy. It is a mirror of beyond” ― Bongha Lee
63. “The only difference between design and art is that design sometimes needs a reason, and art never does .” ― Mike Stagnitta
67. “Reading is the foundation of learning but an artist drew up the blueprints.” ― George E. Miller
68. “Sometimes letting go leads to your best results.” ― Samantha Segal
69. “Colour expresses something in itself. -Vincent Van Gogh”
70. “Science sustains life, but art makes it tolerable.” ― J. Andrew Schrecker
71. “Safe art may soothe us, but it will never transform us.” ― Lucy H. Pearce
72. “The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.” ― Albert Schweitzer
73. “Art is my source of Ambition.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
74. “Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. ” ― Leonardo DaVinci
75. “Art is the bloom that makes life bearable” ― A.J. Garces
76. “Art is freedom, a way of being alive.” ― Marty Rubin
77. “The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.” ― Charles Baudelaire
78. “The creation of woman is the essence of art.” ― Atalay Aydın
79. “What energy is to the athlete, imagination is to the artist.” ― Amit Kalantri
80. “Art recreates me. Art heals me. Art breathes joy into me” ― Malebo Sephodi
81. “Self-motivation is an art, one should practice every now and then!” ― Somya Kedia
82. “Ideas carried out stimulate more ideas.” ― Edith Schaeffer
83. “Art has no responsibility except to be art.” ― Brian K. Vaughan
84. “If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something.” ― Neil Gaiman
85. “People are always saying ‘talent’ when they mean ‘practice.” ― Maggie Stiefvater
86. “Good art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.”― Cesar A Cruz
87. “Dancing is the rhythm of the soul expressed in movement, beauty, art, and creativity.” ― Adrienne Posey
88. “Art is a place where you can be with your own kind, a magical place where imagination flies freely and widely.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
89. “Art combines fancy and judgement.” ― John Gardner
90.“Art and Ocean, both have same depths- Immeasurable!” ― Somya Kedia
91. “Art is something beautiful, creative, and full of aestheticism. It can be an expression of reality and also non-reality.” ― Md. Ziaul Haque
92. “Originality consists of returning to the origin” ― Antoni Gaudí
93. “Art is not always beautiful. But the struggle to create Art is always beautiful.” ― Avijeet Das
94. “A true admirer is also an artist.” ― Aryan Jain
95. “It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.” ― Henning Mankell
96. “Life’s memories are not life’s history, but the original work of an unseen artist” ― Rabindranath Tagore
97. “Art and freedom of expression will change the world faster than politics and religion combined.” ― Kayambila Mpulamasaka
98. “Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.” ― Scott Warren Miller
99. “Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.” ― Anne Frasier
100. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
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