Memorable Famous Artist Quotes

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"The painter tries to master color, the sculptor is molded by it."
Robert Delaunay
"Every artist must decide how much of himself he can put into his work."
Louise Nevelson
"The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature."
George Inness
"The painter makes a world with his brush and the sculptor with his chisel."
Michelangelo
"Art is a reflection of the mind, and the mind is a reflection of the heart."
Honoré de Balzac
"Art is the representative of the visible world. The invisible world is another thing."
Hans Hofmann
"Art is the journey of a free soul."
Alev Lytle Croutier
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"Art is what you can do. If you can’t do it, it isn’t art."
Richard Serra
"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief."
Boyd Rice
"The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen."
Paul Klee
"One can justify a mistake, but one cannot justify doing nothing."
Matthew Fox
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the spirit, is simplicity."
Walt Whitman
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not have beauty."
Michelangelo
"The painter tries to master color; the musician tries to master sound; the poet tries to master word; the actor tries to master human behavior."
Yoko Ono
"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
Bruce Lee
"The great artist is the simplifier."
Vincent van Gogh
"There is no such thing as an artist. There are only people who create art."
Beverley Clark
"I’m not an artist. I’m a businesswoman."
Marina Abramović
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James Whistler
"In every work of art the spirit of the age manifests itself."
Charles Baudelaire
"Every artist is a thief."
T. S. Eliot
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"The more I paint, the more I like everything."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."
Vincent van Gogh
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain the statue."
Michelangelo
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp
"I am an artist... I think I am also a poet."
Basil Rathbone
"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to answer them."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
André Gide
"The painter tries to master color, the composer to master sound; the poet enjoys the freedom of word, but it is the sculptor who constantly reminds himself that he is creating space."
Henry Moore
"The best artist has no concept that a marble block does not possess a soul."
Michelangelo
"What is art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the real."
Rabindranath Tagore
"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
Vincent van Gogh
"Every creation is a gift from the creator."
Jack Kerouac
"You don’t take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
George Santayana
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"To be an artist is to believe in life."
Henry Moore
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Art should be a disruptor, unearthing the unsaid and revealing the unrevealed."
Hannah Arendt
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
Albert Einstein
"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every creation is a reflection of the artist."
Khalil Gibran
"The painter tries to master color and shape; the artist seeks to master herself."
Anne Truitt
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Pablo Picasso
"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist."
Eric Gill
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."
Pablo Picasso
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within it."
Michelangelo
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"In every work of art, the spirit and the matter must blend in harmony."
Paul Klee
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
Paul Klee
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
Pablo Picasso
"Technique is just a means of arriving at a result."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is a lie that tells the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
Jean Sibelius
"A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and a spirit of its own."
Pablo Picasso
"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."
Brené Brown
"The painter's only master is his own heart."
Henri Matisse
"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom."
John F. Kennedy
"The painter tries to master light and shadow while the artist tries to master reality."
Abdelaziz B | Kelly
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The more I paint, the more I find that the uncertainty in art is what makes it exciting."
Jackson Pollock
"An artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist."
Marcel Duchamp
"Art is the highest form of hope."
Gerhard Richter
"I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."
Vincent Van Gogh
"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Every artist should be an amateur."
Cezar Boiangiu
"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Pablo Picasso
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain."
Michelangelo
"Art is what you can get away with."
Andy Warhol
"I don’t paint what I see. I paint what I feel."
Paul Gauguin
"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Claude Debussy
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Émile Zola
"The greatest artist is none other than a gifted listener."
Sharon Weil
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the creator."
Ansel Adams
"There is no art without a spirit of rebellion."
Andre Gide
"Art must be an integral part of the community."
Edward Kennedy
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