ART QUOTES THAT WILL INSPIRE THE ARTIST IN YOU
1 Art is either revolution or plagiarism. Paul Gauguin
2 The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense. Pablo Picasso
3 Life is creation – self and circumstances, the raw material. Dorothy Richardson
4 An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Charles Horton Cooley
5 Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Oscar Wilde
6 Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. Georges Braque
7 You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life. Joan Miro
8 If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is. Bob Ross
9 An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success. Henri Matisse
10 Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci
11 I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Frida Kahlo
12 Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
13 It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. Vincent van Gogh
14 The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. Robert Hughes
15 All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. James Baldwin
16 Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy. Albert Einstein
17 You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life. Salvador Dalí
18 I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. Georgia O’Keeffe
19 Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art. Susan Sontag
20 I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. Elijah Wood
21 In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece. Kai Greene
22 To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence. Louise Bourgeois
23 Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher
24 The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint. Keith Haring
25 The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. Steven Pressfield (The War Of Art)
26 If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola
27 Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it. Leon Trotsky
28 The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. Jerzy Kosinski
29 In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. E. M. Forster
30 I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. Yayoi Kusama
31 A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions. Rembrandt
32 Art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. Rainbow Rowell
33 An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s. J. D. Salinger
34 The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. Joan Miro
35 Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Edward de Bono
36 Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas
37 A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. Christian Dior
38 Art speaks where words are unable to explain. Unknown (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
39 I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Dr. Seuss
40 Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Leonardo da Vinci
41 Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. Agnes Martin
42 Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. Pablo Picasso
43 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso
44 Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso
45 The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. David Bowie
46 I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. Madonna
47 Art is my life and my life is art. Yoko Ono
48 I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent Van Gogh
49 If you hear a voice within you saying, ”You are not a painter,” then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced. Vincent van Gogh
50 I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent van Gogh
100 ART QUOTES THAT WILL INSPIRE THE ARTIST IN YOU
51 Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
52 The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you. Oscar Wilde
53 A picture is a poem without words. Horace
54 Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation it is a corpse. Winston Churchill
55 I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people. Bob Ross
56 Let’s get a little crazy here. Bob Ross
57 You don’t take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams
58 Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dalí
59 I am not strange. I am just not normal. Salvador Dalí
60 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dalí
61 If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo
62 The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche
63 I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Frida Kahlo
64 Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King Jr
65 The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein
66 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein
67 True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Albert Einstein
68 Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
69 Painter, paint! Salvador Dalí
70 Art must destroy violence, only it can do it. Leo Tolstoy
71 Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. Albert Einstein
72 Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way. Albert Einstein
73 Art is a way of recognizing oneself. Louise Bourgeois
74 Personality is everything in art and poetry. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
75 You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. Henri Matisse
76 Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom. Leonardo da Vinci
77 Painting is silent poetry. Plutarch
78 Sometimes with art, it is important just to look. Marina Abramović
79 Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. Yoko Ono
80 Don’t think about making art… Andy Warhol
81 Every good painter paints what he is. Jackson Pollock
82 A true masterpiece does not tell everything. Albert Camus
83 Intensity is all that matters in painting. John Piper
84 To be an artist is to believe in life. Henry Moore
85 Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso
86 It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso
89 Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. Pablo Picasso
90 Art is a line around your thoughts. Gustav Klimt
91 Art is coming face to face with yourself. Jackson Pollock
92 Creativity takes courage. Henri Matisse
93 I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin
94 Art = a mad search for individualism. Paul Gauguin
95 The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. Leonardo da Vinci
96 Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. Leonardo da Vinci
97 The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of. Leonardo da Vinci
98 Think eight hours, work two hours. Mirko Ilic
99 Choose only one master – Nature. Rembrandt
100 Art is not a thing, it is a way. Elbert Hubbard
100 ART QUOTES THAT WILL INSPIRE THE ARTIST IN YOU