Art-Quotes
Art Quotes
Art Quotes That Will Inspire The Artist In You!
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1- Art
is either revolution or plagiarism. - Paul Gauguin
2- The great artist is the simplifier. - Vincent Van Gogh
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3- Painting
is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock
4- I
had so much fire in me and so many plans. - Claude Monet
5- An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Cooley
6- To
draw you must close your eyes and sing. - Pablo Picasso
7- Art
is meant to disturb, science reassures. - Georges Braque
8- The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there
before. - Neil Gaiman
9- Art
must be life — it must belong to everybody. - Marina Abramović
10- Art
enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas
Merton
11- Bring
your humanity to your art. Bring your art to humanity. - Maxime Lagacé
12- Every
artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his
pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher
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13- Never
worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make
great art. - Susan Sontag
14- In
any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better. - Ernest
Hemingway
15- In
the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece. - Kai Greene
16- The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense. - Pablo Picasso
17- Let’s
get a little crazy here. - Bob Ross
18- Every
act of creation is first an act of destruction. - Pablo Picasso
19- We
must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. -
John F. Kennedy
20- I
think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing
in the world. - Elijah Wood
21- Art
is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who
is never serious. - Oscar Wilde
22- 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
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23- If
I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is. - Bob Ross
24- An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of
reputation, prisoner of success. - Henri Matisse
25- Where
the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci
26- Tell
your own story and you will be interesting. - Louise Bourgeois
27- I
never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo
28- Creativity
is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott
Adams
29- It
is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes than to be
narrow-minded and all too prudent. - Vincent van Gogh
30- The
power of nature is such that it’s what all art strives to be. The more we can
get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from
that relationship. - Rick Rubin
31- The
greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the
less talented as a consolation prize. - Robert Hughes
32- 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
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33- Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to
sustain that emotion. - Alfred Hitchcock
34- 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
35- You
have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything
that is contradictory creates life. - Salvador Dalí
36- I
have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same
drain and I am quite free. - Georgia O’Keeffe
37- To
be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence. - Louise Bourgeois
38- The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint. - Keith Haring
39- The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to
death. - Steven Pressfield (The War Of Art)
40- 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
41- Art
is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it. -
Leon Trotsky
42- The
principles of true art is not to portray but to evoke. - Jerzy Kosinski
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43- In
the creative state a man is taken out of himself. - E. M. Forster
44- I
wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself
envisioned. - Yayoi Kusama
45- A
work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions. - Rembrandt
46- Art
wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. - Rainbow
Rowell
47- 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
48- The
works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical
coolness. - Joan Miro
49- Creativity
gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. - Edward de Bono
50- Only
when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. - Edgar
Degas
51- Art
speaks where words are unable to explain. - Unknown
52- I
like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. - Dr. Seuss
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53- Art
is never finished, only abandoned. - Leonardo da Vinci
54- Painting
is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt
rather than seen. - Leonardo da Vinci
55- Art
is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. - Agnes Martin
56- Bad
artists copy. Good artists steal. - Pablo Picasso
57- Everything
you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso
58- The
only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. - David Bowie
59- I
am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. - Madonna
60- I
put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. -
Vincent van Gogh
61- I
dream of painting and then I paint my dream. - Vincent Van Gogh
62- 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
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63- Art
is my life and my life is art. - Yoko Ono
64- Every
artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
65- The
moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you. - Oscar
Wilde
66- A
picture is a poem without words. - Horace
67- Without
tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is
a corpse. - Winston Churchill
68- 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
69- You
don’t take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams
70- Have
no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. - Salvador Dalí
71- I
am not strange. I am just not normal. - Salvador Dalí
72- Those
who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. - Salvador Dalí
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73- If
people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful
at all. - Michelangelo
74- The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich
Nietzsche
75- I
paint self-portraits because I am so often alone because I am the person I
know best. - Frida Kahlo
76- Human
salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. - Martin Luther
King Jr
77- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of
all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
78- True
art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. - Albert
Einstein
79- Art
must destroy violence, only it can do it. - Leo Tolstoy
80- Creativity
is contagious. Pass it on. - Albert Einstein
81- Art
should tell what the system does not. – Amuse Chimp
82- Art
is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way. - Albert
Einstein
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83- Art
is to look at not to criticize. - Edgar Allen Poe
84- Art
is a way of recognizing oneself. - Louise Bourgeois
85- Personality
is everything in art and poetry. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
86- You
study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. - Henri Matisse
87- Art
lives from constraints and dies from freedom. - Leonardo da Vinci
88- Painting
is silent poetry. - Plutarch
89- Sometimes
with art, it is important just to look. - Marina Abramović
90- Controversy
is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono
91- Don’t
think about making art… - Andy Warhol
92- Every good painter paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock
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93- A
true masterpiece does not tell everything. - Albert Camus
94- Intensity
is all that matters in painting. - John Piper
95- To
be an artist is to believe in life. - Henry Moore
96- Art
is a lie that makes us realize truth. - Pablo Picasso
97- Art
is the elimination of the unnecessary. - Pablo Picasso
98- Art
is a line around your thoughts. - Gustav Klimt
99- Art
is coming face to face with yourself. - Jackson Pollock
100- I
shut my eyes in order to see. - Paul Gauguin
101- Art
= a mad search for individualism. - Paul Gauguin
102- The
painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
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103- Perspective
is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo
da Vinci
104- The
Artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of. - Leonardo da Vinci
105- Think
eight hours, work two hours. - Mirko Ilic
106- Choose
only one master – Nature. - Rembrandt
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