Inspirational Art Quotes

A good artist has less time than ideas. ~ Martin Kippenberger

Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort's world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort's followers!"
"Of course I haven't!" said Harry indignantly. "He killed my mum and dad!"
"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!" said Dumbledore loudly. ~ J.K. Rowling

I don't create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art. ~ Chase Jarvis

We have to be rid of all paradigms, I mean all, and go to that place where all paradigms dissolve. That's what this certainly is all about; especially the scary paradigms. Do you really think that we are all going to Hell, or even Heaven? This is not about punishment and reward. We already have the reward. It's the grace of this journey into the heart of the Creator and being a part of that creation. ~ Art Hochberg

The art of conversation lies in listening ~ Malcolm Forbes

Some people think they have to marry someone just like themselves. Well, if you want to do that, it's ok. It might be more interesting though if you marry someone who is not just like you. Hmmmmmmm. ~ Art Hochberg

There's always less to do than you think. If there's more to do than you think, then do that also. ~ Art Hochberg

If we want less and less, we may in fact receive more and more of what we need. It may work like that. ~ Art Hochberg

There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider to be ideal societies; translating this into the language of mathematics, we might say that utopias bear a + sign. The other feature, organically growing out of the content, is to be found in the form: a utopia is always static; it is always descriptive and has no, of almost no, plot dynamics. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

The ability to start out upon your own impulse is
fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own
terms ... Getting started, keeping going, getting started
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm. ~ Seamus Heaney

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

To pray with others is good. To pray alone is even better. ~ Art Hochberg

Love everyone. Why not? Give it a try. ~ Art Hochberg

As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better
but you keep working anyway. ~ Ivan Turgenev

It's much harder to provide a great customer service than I would have ever realised. It's much more art than science in some of these other areas and not just about the facts but about how you are conveying them. ~ David Yu

The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to years, ages). But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

At some point we have to be able to say, "I have no idea what is going on." Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder if that's the whole trip, so that we can actually know what's going on. Hmmmmmmmm. ~ Art Hochberg

Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes ... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void. ~ Joss Whedon

You always have to be prepared that the thing we want most desperately to happen may not happen the way we think. That takes faith. So why not try wanting to see something happen without desperation. ~ Art Hochberg

We've come here to totally individualize, and yet, we're totally connected to everyone else. How does that work? ~ Art Hochberg

Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be. ~ Gene Simmons

Every day, each day is the most important day of your life. ~ Art Hochberg

Did you ever do something and right after, you think, "Did that really happen?" Or you can't even remember what happened? Hmmmmmmmm. ~ Art Hochberg

None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Nevertheless, some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute. ~ Aristotle.

You don't always have to say what's on your mind. You can keep it to yourself for the time being. That's called patience. ~ Art Hochberg

It's all right to change your mind about a situation, even if it's in mid-course without fear that you're missing something. You know, if you're not there, it's not happening for you at that time. All you're doing is changing direction. ~ Art Hochberg

There is no time – everything's going on at the same time. How does that work? ~ Art Hochberg

In a sense, all life is a prank. We are not who we appear to be and no one else is as they appear to be. So how can we handle that little mystery? This whole business about God – what's that all about? No one knows anything about that either. So we have people who are not as they appear to be, telling us about something that they have no idea about. We really are on our own here to try and figure it out. That's the real adventure of it. Some people are anxious to tell you what they know and have experienced. I'd rather hear from some people who admit to what they don't know and haven't experienced. They're much more interesting. ~ Art Hochberg

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. ~ Robert Henri

If you feel trapped in a situation and are complaining about it, figure out how to untrap yourself and stop complaining. Save your energy for further figuring out and when there is an increase in courage. ~ Art Hochberg

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope

Don't play the reels of your life backwards - play them forward. ~ Art Hochberg

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Everything on the planet receives life from one source – isn't that amazing? Our purpose here is to go to that source, and use that gift, for the good of everyone. ~ Art Hochberg

Sometimes just shut off the outside. See what's playing on the inside. ~ Art Hochberg

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it. ~ Nikola Tesla

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

The unexpected things in life are often the most interesting and can impact us greatly. ~ Art Hochberg

How do the eyes see? I don't think the scientists have a clue about that one. There is a science within science – that's where the answer lies. ~ Art Hochberg

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

You could lead your life as if the whole world were watching you on TV, or you could lead your life as if no one is watching you – same thing. ~ Art Hochberg

Don't try to be like the Guru - be yourself. ~ Art Hochberg

When you really merge with someone, it's not that you merge with them, you're merging with love. ~ Art Hochberg

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. ~ Amedee Ozenfant

Insanity is refusal to stay in the present as other people experience it. You see, insanity is really like getting caught in a time warp. You can't find your way out. So at some point, people make a decision that they'd rather be with the insanity as others have defined it, then to play in the game that most other people have accepted as reality. ~ Art Hochberg

The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

The less you think you know, the more will be known. It's amazing what you can know when you let go of being the knower. ~ Art Hochberg

You know, sometimes there's absolutely nothing you can say about what you've been through, nothing. The whole trip is mind boggling. All you can do is shake your head and smile. ~ Art Hochberg

Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Everyone and everything comes into our life at exactly the right time. ~ Art Hochberg

Some people say, "I only want to do God's work." How do you know what God's work is?? ~ Art Hochberg

There is no end to the story. Isn't it amazing that something is really, really important one moment, and then minutes later it has lost all importance? What happened? It seems like it's gone away. It's been diffused. Amazing. ~ Art Hochberg

Listen, you're not doing God any favors by praying. You're doing yourself a favor. ~ Art Hochberg

There are many aspects to yourself. Which ones we reveal to ourselves is entirely up to us. To reveal this is a process of self-revelation. ~ Art Hochberg

It's not that the scene which is unfolding for you is out there – it's coming from in here. ~ Art Hochberg

In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Comforting others can be tricky. It can get real sticky, if we think we are the comforter. There really is only one comforter. ~ Art Hochberg

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. ~ Georges Bataille

Why is it that churches and religions and that whole gang behave as if they have got the whole God knowledge down. I mean what kind of arrogance is that? ~ Art Hochberg

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art. ~ Toni Morrison

Sometimes it seems that we initiate a scene and sometimes it seems that we're just taking part in the scene. Actually, we're initiating them all. ~ Art Hochberg

Patience slows down time and more can happen when time is slowed down. That's the secret of patience. ~ Art Hochberg

The idea is to get your life to where it is doable, manageable, and somewhat in order. ~ Art Hochberg

Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to an amalgam of reality and fantasy. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Things seem one way, and then another way - you gotta get used to it. ~ Art Hochberg

Every once in awhile, have a really good argument with yourself. I mean really get pissed off. Take both sides. Then look in the mirror, and in the middle of the argument say, "You know, you're a pain in my butt. I'm not arguing with you. Get lost. ~ Art Hochberg

To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Relaxing is hard to do at times. Worrying and agitation are even harder on the body and mind. ~ Art Hochberg

Did you ever leave a scene and wonder, "What was that all about? ~ Art Hochberg

Some people say they're afraid about dying. Noooo ... it's the fear of living totally in the moment, living fully engaged, and independent at the same time. That's the real fear. ~ Art Hochberg

A prayer is not what you think - it's what you experience. ~ Art Hochberg

Just be careful that your determination doesn't turn into your fanaticism. ~ Art Hochberg

Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of their dream, when in fact each person is having their own dream. Take what you need from the religions and just leave the rest, and be all right with that. ~ Art Hochberg

Writing is a craft not an art. ~ William Zinsser

What a trip life is. ~ Art Hochberg

Original sin - the big lie. ~ Art Hochberg

When you're in the role of the teacher, the teacher must take on the role of the student and learn from him or her. ~ Art Hochberg

Love is the antidote for all the fears, questions and worries that we accumulate in life. ~ Art Hochberg

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution! ~ Albert Einstein

When you are around people who are really suffering, you get to experience some of their suffering and that can make you stronger in your faith. ~ Art Hochberg

Intention to pray is even more powerful than physical prayer - but it's good to do both. ~ Art Hochberg

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Things look one way and then they look another way. ~ Art Hochberg

The thing is we can't be attached to anything we've experienced up to this point in our life - any person, any situation, any outcomes, any happiness, any pain - any of it. ~ Art Hochberg

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries ~ Wayne Dyer

It's not the job of the child to make the parent happy. It's the job of the parent to take care of their own happiness. ~ Art Hochberg

The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style. ~ Bruce Lee

It's easy then we're just doing what's in front of us – without judging the hell out of ourselves. ~ Art Hochberg

You can't really have patience. You can be patient – if that's what's up for you. ~ Art Hochberg

Happiness is a tricky business. It may not have as much to do with doing as it has to do with not doing. ~ Art Hochberg

Men and women relate and understand things differently – period! ~ Art Hochberg

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dying is simply showing up for your time of departure - from this realm. ~ Art Hochberg

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. ~ Helen Frankenthaler