50 Art Quotes – Inspire Your Innate Creativity
Looking for the best art quotes? These 50 epic quotes about art will help you tap into your innate artistic creativity.
Hey my friend,
Let’s chat about art quotes.
The following quotes about art will instantly warm your heart.
These art quotes will also make you realise what TRUE artistic creativity looks like.
Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest art quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 art quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
ART QUOTES
1 – Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso
2 – To practice any art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. So do it. Kurt Vonnegut
3 – Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. Marc Chagall
4 – While drawing I discover what I really want to say. Dario Fo
5 – I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for. Georgia O’Keeffe
6 – Art is a line around your thoughts. Gustav Klimt
7- The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. Wassily Kandinsky
8 – Painting from nature is not copying the object, it’s realizing one’s sensations.
Paul Cezanne
9 – Don’t be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation. Paul Cézanne
10 – Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar Degas
ART QUOTES
11 – I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. David Rockefeller
12 – Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Degas
13 – I paint flowers so they will not die. Frida Kahlo
14 – I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. Georgia O’Keeffe
15 – In art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished. Mary Cassatt
16 – Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul. Vincent van Gogh
17- He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. Saint Francis of Assisi
18 – Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get the work done. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you’re not going to make an awful lot of work. Chuck Close
19 – A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all. Paul Cézanne
20 – Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci
ART QUOTES
21 – There is no must in art because art is free. Wassily Kandinsky
22 – Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will. Anselm Kiefer
23 – Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. Donatella Versace
24 – Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feelings the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy
25 – Art is never finished, only abandoned. Leonardo da Vinci
26 – Art is the stored honey of the human soul. Theodore Dreiser
27- You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Jack London
28 – Painting is a means of self-enlightenment. John Olsen
29 – To be an artist is to believe in life. Henry Moore
30 – Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands. Millard Sheets
ART QUOTES
31 – Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. Ray Bradbury
32 – Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. Anais Nin
33 – A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. Salvador Dali
34 -Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
35 – Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
36 – The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle
37- Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. John Lubbock
38 – Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Leonardo da Vinci
39 – Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Pablo Picasso
40 – Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. Al Hirschfeld
ART QUOTES
41 – Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. Steve Jobs
42 – Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. Bill Moyers
43 – Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. Andy Warhol
44 – Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. Andy Warhol
45 – What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. Eugene Delacroix
46 – If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
47- Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. Anais Nin
48 – Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso
49 – You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’? George Bernard Shaw
50 – Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up. Pablo Picasso
BONUS: The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of. Leonardo da Vinci
BONUS: The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. Eric Gill
BONUS: Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. Stella Adler
BONUS: 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
BONUS:How you draw is a reflection of how you feel about the world. You’re not capturing it, you’re interpreting it. Juliette Aristides
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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