Memorable Inspirational Quotes About Art

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"The painter tries to master color and space, yet fails and looks ripe for Mobius."
Vladimir Nabokov
"Art is anything you can get away with."
Marshall McLuhan
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within itself."
Michelangelo
"Good artists borrow; great artists steal."
Pablo Picasso
"You don’t make art, you find it."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
Elbert Hubbard
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
Ansel Adams
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"A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places."
Paul Gardner
"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist."
Eric Gill
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
Mikhail Baryshnikov
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
Maya Angelou
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
Paul Klee
"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to answer them."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"To create is to live twice."
Albert Camus
"The painter tries to master color, while the musician is at the service of sound."
Yasujirō Ozu
"Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists."
Kerry James Marshall
"I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."
Vincent van Gogh
"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."
Brene Brown
"Art must be an integral part of our lives, to breathe and feel it in our hearts."
Pablo Picasso
"The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"What is art? It is the human disposition of sensible things."
Jean-Luc Godard
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"Art should be an integral part of human life and education."
Nikolai Kandinsky
"A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle."
Robert Motherwell
"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
William Merritt Chase
"Every artist is a madman, but a madman is not necessarily an artist."
Joaquín Sorolla
"The great thing about the arts is that there’s always room for creativity."
Michael Angelo
"Art is an experience, not a product."
Robert Motherwell
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not have a finger on a chisel; he will simply strike it."
Michelangelo
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
Barbara W. Tuchman
"The painter tries to master color, the musician harmony, and our life is an endeavor to master the harmony of both."
Vassily Kandinsky
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain."
Michelangelo
"Every artist is a bit of a magician."
Paul Klee
"Art is the most effective mode of communications."
John Dewey
"Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
Amy Lowell
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"Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line."
Unknown
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim."
Oscar Wilde
"Art must be an integral part of life; otherwise, it becomes just an ornament."
Peter Brook
"Art is a step in the known toward the unknown."
Khalil Gibran
"In every work of art the spirit of the age finds expression."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"The artist's duty is to keep alive the sense of wonder in the world."
E. B. White
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the most beautiful way of expressing thought."
Unknown
"Through art, we make sense of the world around us."
Alfredo Jaar
"Art is a reflection of who you are as a person."
Unknown
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom."
John F. Kennedy
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
"The painter tries to master color; the musician, sound; the poet, time; and the sculptor, space."
Giorgio Morandi
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain, and that a statue does not yet embody."
Michelangelo
"Art is the most beautiful lie."
Claude Debussy
"You don’t make art; you find it."
Pablo Picasso
"The great thing about art is that it makes you feel something."
An unknown artist
"Every canvas is a journey all its own."
Anna Deavere Smith
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Charles Horton Cooley
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
Albert Einstein
"Art is a line around your thoughts."
Gustave Flaubert
"Art is not just what you see; it is what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"Art is the highest form of hope."
Gerhard Richter
"Art is about creating a story that doesn’t have to make sense."
Guerilla Girls
"Every good artist paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of."
Leo Steinberg
"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."
Henri Matisse
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
Albert Einstein
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse
"The painter tries to master color and shape, but the true artist colors and shapes the mind."
Khalil Gibran
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate; it is life, intensified, brilliant life."
Jane Harrison
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Claude Debussy
"Every artist is a thief."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp
"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is a freedom of the spirit."
Nicolas Roeg
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler
"The more I paint, the more I enjoy it."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
Cesar A. Cruz
"Art speaks where words are unable to explain."
Unknown
"You don’t take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
André Gide
"The great artist is the simplifier."
Vincent Van Gogh
"What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit."
John Updike
"An artist is not a special kind of person; rather, each person is a special kind of artist."
Anne Lamott
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Art is the most beautiful of lies."
Claude Debussy
"Art is the most beautiful way to express what you feel."
Unknown
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
Oscar Wilde
"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
Vincent Van Gogh
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