- “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” - Aristotle
- “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” - Henry Ward Beecher
- “The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” - Robert Henri
- “Like emotions, colours are a reflection of life.” - Janice Glennaway
- “Painting is by nature a luminous language.” - Robert Delaunay
- “If you could say it in words, there’d be no reason to paint.” - Edward Hopper
- “Design is like gravity – the force that holds it all together.” - E A Whitney
- “When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.” - Fernando Botero
- “How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.” - Leonado da Vinci 1452 – 1519
- “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” - Pablo Picasso
- “As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.” - Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
- “Life is like a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can”.- unknown
"Life is like a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can".- unknown
Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule - “A painting is never finished – it simply stops in interesting places.” - Paul Gardner
- “Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.” - Aristotle
- “Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.” - G. K. Chesterton
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." - G. K. Chesterton
Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule - ‘”Without art the view of the world would be incomplete.” - Conrad Fiedler
- “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” - unknown
- “No amount of skilful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.” - Edward Hopper
- “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” - Henry Ward Beecher
- “Art is a language that can transcend words. It can convey some of the non-verbal consciousness of the artist to the viewer.” - Ron Gang
- “My art is what I do and how I live. I paint the things around me, the things I know and feel comfortable with.” - Dion Archibald
- “There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.” - Salvador Dali
- “The artist never entirely knows — We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark” – Agnes de Mille
- “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” - John W. Gardner
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” - John W. Gardner
Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule - “Everything you can imagine is real.” - Pablo Picasso
- “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.” - Émile Zola
- “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” - Vincent van Gogh
- “Creativity takes courage.” - Henri Matisse
- “Do whatever you do intensely.” - Robert Henri.
- “To make art is to sing with the human voice. To do this you must first learn that the only voice you need is the voice you already have.” - David Bayles, Ted Orland -Art and Fear, 1993
- “The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” - Robert Henri
- “I invent nothing, I rediscover.” Auguste Rodin
- “True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” - Albert Einstein
- “A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.” - Oscar Wilde
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament." - Oscar Wilde
Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule - “The earth has music for those who listen.” - William Shakespeare
- “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” - Charles Horton Cooley
- “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” - Walt Whitman
- “What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” - John Updike
- “The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.” - Novalis
- “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” - Henri Matisse
- “The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” - Jerzy Kosinski
- “To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.” - Alexander Calder
- “Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies.” - Anish Kapoor
- “My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.” - Paul Getty
- “I think about my work every minute of the day.” - Jeff Koons
- “Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.” - Arthur Erickson
- “When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.” - Jim Hodges
- “Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” - Paul Cezanne
- “Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.” - Paul Klee
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see." - Paul Klee
Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule - “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” - Pablo Picasso
- “Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.” - Mason Cooley
- “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” - Edgar Degas
- “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” - Pablo Picasso
- “People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.” - Claude Monet
- “Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” - Leo Tolstoy
- “Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.” - Harvey Fierstein
"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate." - Harvey...
Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule - “The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.” - Paul Cezanne
- “Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” - Edward Hopper
- “Life is short, the art long.” - Hippocrates
- “Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can’t articulate.” - Mos Def
- “One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.” - Andrew Wyeth
- “Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.” - Henry Moore
- “Fine art is knowledge made visible.” - Gustave Courbet
- “Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.” - Elbert Hubbard
- “Art is a harmony parallel with nature.” - Paul Cezanne
- “Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.: - Margot Fonteyn
- “All I tell artists is, ‘Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you’re chasing your tail that way. It’s not going to happen, and if you’re successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.” - Gloria Estefan
- “Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.” - Franz Marc
- “Art is the objectification of feeling.” - Herman Melville
- “Art is an investigation.” - Twyla Tharp
"Art is an investigation." - Twyla Tharp
Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule - “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” Oscar Wilde
- “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”Stella Adler
- “The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” Vincent Van Gogh
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau
- “There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” Pablo Picasso
- “I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” - Vincent Van Gogh
- “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams
- “The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- “Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.” - Destiny Allison
- “The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.” - Ken Robinson
- “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts — such is the duty of the artist.” - Schumann
- “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” - Edgar Degas
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." - Edgar Degas
Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule - “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” - Wynetka Ann Reynolds
- “What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.” - John Updike
- “One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie.” - Mark Stevens
- “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” - Elbert Hubbard
- “The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.” - André Malraux
- “Art is the struggle to understand.” - Terri Guillemets
- “For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.” - William McElcheran
- “While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt.” - Odilon Redon
- “Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.” - Terri Guillemets
- “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” - Aristotle
- “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” - Michelangelo
- “Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” - John Ruskin
- ” Art is a jealous mistress.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson“
- “There is no surer way of evading the world than by Art; and no surer way of uniting with it than by Art.” - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “That art is best which suggests most” - Austin O’Malley
- “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” - Pablo Picasso
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." - Pablo Picasso
Click To Tweet - Powered By CoSchedule - “No masterpiece was created by a lazy artist.” - Salvador Dali
- “Have no fear of perfection.” - Salvador Dali
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101 Inspirational Art Quotes
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