When faced with a personal crisis — or a global pandemic — our natural instinct is to dwell on the crisis more than anything else. Fear and negative emotions hijack our minds, and anxiety becomes our unwelcome voiceover. That is where the superpowers of motivational quotes sweep in to save the day in the form of canvas wall art inspiration.
Quotes canvas prints
Words have power. Everybody knows that. They can inspire someone, make them laugh or cry or even transform somebody’s life! We understand that at Tenstickers and have put that into the creation of our quotes on canvases collection! Take a look at our wonderful catalogue of designs and choose the one that inspires you the most, the one that, when you wake up, when you see it, makes your day. If you are tired of seeing a white wall when you wake up or when you are in your living room, do not hesitate to order our wall prints quotes! Explore this exciting collection now!
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Modern Art Quotes
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
― Tom Stoppard, Artist Descending a Staircase
tags: craftsmanship, imagination, modern-art, skill
“Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see.”
― Paul Christensen, The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen’s Land
tags: humour, modern-art, satire
“Jubal shrugged. “Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation. . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce- render emotional-his audience, each time. These ladies who won’t deign to do that- and perhaps can’t- of course lost the public. If they hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for ‘art’ that leaves him unmoved- if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes or such.”
“You know, Jubal, I’ve always wondered why i didn’t give a hoot for paintings or statues- but I thought it was something missing in me, like color blindness.”
“Mmm, one does have to learn to look at art, just as you must know French to read a story printed in French. But in general terms it’s up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code like Pepys and his diary. Most of these jokers don’t even want to use language you and I know or can learn. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we ‘fail’ to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything- obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. Ben, would you call me an artists?”
“Huh? Well, I’ve never thought about it. You write a pretty good stick.”
“Thank you. ‘Artist’ is a word I avoid for the same reasons I hate to be called ‘Doctor.’ But I am an artist, albeit a minor one. Admittedly most of my stuff is fit to read only once… and not even once for a busy person who already knows the little I have to say. But I am an honest artist, because what I write is consciously intended to reach the customer… reach him and affect him, if possible with pity and terror… or, if not, at least to divert the tedium of his hours with a chuckle or an odd idea. But I am never trying to hide it from him in a private language, nor am I seeking the praise of other writers for ‘technique’ or other balderdash. I want the praise of the cash customer, given in cash because I’ve reached him- or I don’t want anything. Support for the arts- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Damn it, you punched one of my buttons. Let me fill your glass and you tell me what is on your mind.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
tags: jubal, modern-art
“Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
tags: art, modern-art, modernity
“They lived off each other’s hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying thing that life has to offer. ‘If that is possible,’ we say to ourselves, ‘then everything is possible’; a new phase in the history of human awareness has been opened up, just as it opened up when people first read Dante, or first heard Bach’s 48 preludes and fugues, or first learned from Hamlet and King Lear(/I> that the complexities and contradictions of human nature could be spelled out on the stage.
This being so, it is a great exasperation to come face to face with new art and not make anything of it. Stared down by something that we don’t like, don’t understand and can’t believe in, we feel personally affronted, as if our identity as reasonably alert and responsive human beings had been called into question. We ought to be having a good time, and we aren’t. More than that, an important part of life is being withheld from us; for if any one thing is certain in this world it is that art is there to help us live, and for no other reason.”
― John Russell, The Meaning of Modern Art: History as Nightmare, Vol. 3
“Stop thinking about art works as objects and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. What makes a work of art good for you is not something that s already inside it but something that happens inside you.”
― Brian Eno
tags: art, modern-art, music
“Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.”
― Amit Chaudhuri, A Strange and Sublime Address
tags: calcutta, modern-art
“Since it is sure of its ability to control the entire domain of the visible and the audible via the laws governing commercial circulation and democratic communication, Empire no longer censures anything. All art, and all thought, is ruined when we accept this permission to consume, to communicate and to enjoy. We should become the pitiless censors of ourselves.”
― Alain Badiou
tags: art, censure, democracy, empire, jouissance, modern-art, theses
“The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can’t like it.”
― David Mamet, On Directing Film
tags: art, audience, modern-art, storytelling
“I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.”
― Robert Hughes
tags: art, hype, mediocrity, modern-art, modern-art-market
“Brod was a brilliant intellectual with exceptional energy; a generous man willing to do battle for others; his attachment to Kafka was warm and disinterested. The only problem was his artistic orientation: a man of ideas, he knew nothing of the passion for form; his novels (he wrote twenty of them) are sadly conventional; and above all: he understood nothing at all about modern art.
Why, despite all this, was Kafka so fond of him? What about you-do you stop being fond of your best friend because he has a compulsion to write bad verse?”
― Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
tags: friendship, modern-art
“He was eager to tell me about his latest work, which consisted of him vomiting on a footpath, then cordoning it off. Each artwork lasted until the first ‘philistine’ thought to take the rope down.
‘In that way, the philistine is drawn – whether he likes it or not – into my art. He becomes part of it…and the vomit part of him. Essentially, it is the cosmic vomit. We all spew it. It blurs the boundaries, subverts the liminal…”
― Paul Christensen, Reveries of the Dreamking
tags: modern-art, philistines, satire, satirical
“Art is an expression that transcends religion, culture, country, people and time.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
tags: expression-of-art, modern-art, what-is-art
“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.”
― Robert Rauschenberg
tags: modern-art
“El estancamiento y la falta de perspectivas del arte moderno corresponden al estancamiento y a la falta de perspectivas de la sociedad de la mercancía que ha agotado todos sus recursos.”
― Anselm Jappe, El absurdo mercado de los hombres sin cualidades: Ensayos sobre el fetichismo de la mercancía
tags: commodity-society, modern-art, value-criticism
“I think a lot of modern art is complete bullshit. But I admire the creativity. The weird shit people think of! Some of the most interesting things I’ve ever seen in my life, I’ve seen in modern art museums. And that’s what art is all about. It’s supposed to make you think.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories – Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.”
― Neville Weston, The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History
tags: modern-art
“Realism without naturalism. is a leading motif in Modern Art. There is a move away from the struggle to perfect the reflection of Nature in Art’s mirror, which I attribute to the all-pervading effects of photography. You must serve the tradition without being its slave. Remember you are an artist, not a draughtsman.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant
tags: artist, modern-art, photography
“The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers. Of course there is no reason for choosing the cube as a symbol, except that it is probably less fitted than any other mathematical expression for any but the most formal decorative art. There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, or Knights of the Isosceles Triangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, An Art Exhibition
tags: humorous-quotes, modern-art
“Traditional art extended itself to the whole of life and left an imprint of beauty upon the everyday existence of human beings rather than being concerned only with paintings that we put in museums and at best visit a few Sundays each year.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, در جستوجوی امر قدسي
Your in-house shrink
There is unique psychology behind motivational quotes about which psychologist and motivation expert, Jonathan Fader, PhD, says the following: ‘There’s a little bit of implicit coaching that’s happening when you’re reading it. It’s building that self-efficacy in that kind of dialogue that you’re having with yourself.’ You need to listen to these voices in your head.
Your environment has an outstanding effect on your thoughts, whether you are aware of it or not. As you sit on your couch, work at your desk, or dream in your bed, motivational quotes on canvas wall art become your daily inspiration and pick-me-up — keeping you aligned and inspired. We are saluting them as ‘little triumphs of rhetoric.’ [Gwen Moran]
Your in-house reminder
Motivational quotes are a weapon — holding the secret power to affirm and validate what you already know about your id and ego, but are quick to forget.
When tempted to give up, wall art boldly sends a message; ‘Don’t Quit!’
When you feel out of control, canvas art reminds you that ‘The World is Yours!’
When your dreams seem unreachable and leave you paralysed, canvas art steps in and shakes your resolve with these words: ‘Stop Dreaming and Start Doing!
And when negative naysayers and fake news penetrate your existence through the incessant noise of social media, motivational wall art gets #goodvibes.
You see — it is already working.
Canvas art motivational quotes are way more than pithy sayings. They are the constant and much necessary inspiration and affirming voice in your ear. #Socialdistancing and #lockdown cannot remove their influence!
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