750 Inspirational Art Quotes: Famous Artists (2023)

1. “I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”

2. “Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.” – Victor Pinchuk

3. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

4. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

5. “The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

6. “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” Ansel Adams

7. “Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.” ― Robert Browning

8. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

9. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.” Steve Jobs

10. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent van Gogh

11. “My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.“

12. “Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

13. “The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.”― Norman Rockwell

14. “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.” – Cecil B. DeMille

15. “The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” – Auguste Rodin

16. “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.” – St Francis of Assisi

17. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” -Twyla Tharp

18. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

19. “I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also, I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.” – Francis Bacon

20. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

21. “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.“ ― Paul Cezanne

22. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

23. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” – Pablo Picasso

24. “I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.” – Mary Cassatt

25. “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” – John F. Kennedy

26. “Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.” – Mark Rothko

27. “Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

28. “To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” Schumann

29. “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

30. “Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein

31. “For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.” Georges Rouault

32. “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

33. “Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”

34. “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

35. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

36. “Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” - Dorothy Parker

37. “Art is making something out of nothing.”

38. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso

39. “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

40. “Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.”

41. “Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”

42. “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”

43. “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

44. “Inspiration does exist but it must find you working.” Pablo Picasso

45. “Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself.“― John Berger

46. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” –Henry Ward Beecher

47. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.“― Aristotle

48. “She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

49. “Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” – John Ruskin

50. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” Pablo Picasso

51. “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

52. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” –Leonardo da Vinci

53. “It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.” - Donatella Versace

54. “I paint flowers so they will not die.” – Frida Kahlo

55. “Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso

56. “I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

57. “Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.” Rembrandt

58. “I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.” – David Rockefeller

59. “It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.” ― Oscar Wilde

60. “ In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

61. “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

62. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore

63. “If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.” Albrecht Durer

64. “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” Edward de Bono

65. “Every good painter paints what he is.” Jackson Pollock

66. “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”

67. “Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”

68. “I was crafty when crafty wasn’t cool.” Alexa Westerfield

69. “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” – Pablo Picasso

70. “The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosiński

71. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh

72. “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali

73. “The Achilles heel of an artist lies in the hope that his art is good.“― Kapil Gupta

74. “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

75. “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”

76. “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

77. Creativity is contagious, pass it on. - Albert Einstein

78. “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo

79. “If you as a designer don’t believe in your design and don’t see it beyond the context of the film, instead of as a real creature in a real world then how can you expect the audience to believe it?“― Peter Jackson

80. “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

81. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas

82. “If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery. It wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.“― Michelangelo

83. “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

84. “The object of Art is to give life a shape.” – William Shakespeare

85. “How you draw is a reflection of how you feel about the world. You're not capturing it, you're interpreting it.“― Juliette Aristides

86. You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

87. “Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.” – Edward Albee

88. “A sculpture is just a drawing you fall over in the dark.” – Al Hirschfield

89. “You have to systematically create confusion; it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.” – Salvador Dalí

90. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home - Twyla Tharp

91. “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.“― Albert Einstein

92. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” Albert Einstein

93. “Do not fear mistakes - there are none.” Miles David

94. “There’s nothing in the world that breeds success like success.”

95. “The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.“― Stanley Kubrick

96. “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.“― Joan Miro

97. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Andy Warhol

98. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”

99. “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.”

100. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler

101. “Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.“― Keith Haring

102. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas

103. “It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.” Vincent Van Gogh

104. “One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.“― Balthus

105. “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.”

106. “Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.“― Neil Gaiman

107. “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” ― Oscar Wilde

108. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci

109. “Art is the proper task of life. ” Friedrich Nietzsche

110. “Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.”

111. “I shut my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin

112. “Art does not reproduce what you see. It makes us see.” – Paul Klee

113. “When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects. I think the life is the same.” Hiroko Sakai

114. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” ― Pablo Picasso

115. “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

116. “Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.“― Leo Tolstoy

117. “Art is my life and my life is art.” – Yoko Ono

118. “Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.”

119. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

120. “Personality is everything in art and poetry.“― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

121. “When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” – Agnes Martin

122. “Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”

123. “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” -Michelangelo

124. “Art is a guarantee of sanity.” ― Louise Bourgeois

125. Creativity takes courage. - Henri Matisse

126. “I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.“― Bob Ross

127. “I invent nothing, I rediscover.” Auguste Rodin

128. “I shut my eyes in order to see.”

129. “Every artist dips her brush into her own soul, and paints her own truth into her pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

130. “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

131. “TALENT IS GOOD. PRACTICE IS BETTER. PASSION IS BEST.”

132. “In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece.” – Kai Green

133. “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” Osho

134. “There is no word for art. We say it is to transfer something from the real to the unreal. I am an owl, and I am a happy owl. I like to make people happy and everything happy. I am the light of happiness and I am a dancing owl.“― Kenojuak Ashevak

135. “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.” – Earl Nightingale

136. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” Henry Moore

137. “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

138. “I love to look at art, I love to look at paintings, and I almost feel like the experience isn’t complete until I’ve made something of my own.”

139. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau

140. “What do you think an artist is…he is a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

141. “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” - Andre Gide

142. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

143. “In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better.“― Ernest Hemingway

144. “Creative isn’t the way I think, it’s the way I like to live.” – Paul Sandip

145. “Drawing is not what one sees, but what one can make others see.“― Edgar Degas

146. “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

147. “The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.”

148. “I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.” – Elijah Wood

149. “Don’t be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.” – Paul Cézanne

150. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.“― Scott Adams

151. …Only art penetrates what pride, passion, intelligence and habit erect on all sides – the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive. Proust calls these hints our “true impressions.” The true impressions, our persistent intuitions, will, without art, be hidden from us and we will be left with nothing but a ‘terminology for practical ends’ which we falsely call life.

152. “In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

153. “Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.” – Paul Klee

154. “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

155. “Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.”

156. “What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” John Updike

157. “You are your only limit.” – Anonymous

158. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” Leonardo da Vinci

159. “He was our greatest living painter, until he died.” – Mark Twain

160. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” Kurt Vonnegut

161. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” –Thomas Merton

162. “Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.“― Tyler Cowen

163. Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought. - Albert Einstein

164. “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

165. “Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.” – Denis Waitley

166. “Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

167. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” - Pablo Picasso

168. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” Pablo Picasso

169. “The great artists of the past were aware that human life is full of chaos and suffering. But they had a remedy for this. And the name of that remedy was ‘beauty’. The beautiful work of art brings consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy. It shows human life to be worthwhile.“― Roger Scruton

170. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

171. “Art is the daughter of freedom.” –Friedrich Schiller

172. “The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”

173. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso

174. “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miró

175. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

176. “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

177. Art must take reality by surprise. - Francoise Sagan

178. “Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”

179. “Success is a worn down pencil.“― Robert Rauschenberg

180. “Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say ‘almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea.”- Barbara Hepworth

181. “Obsessive people make great art.” – Susan Sontag

182. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

183. “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.” – Leonardo da Vinci

184. “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.” – Leonardo da Vinci

185. “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward, you can remove all traces of reality.”

186. “Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.” – Dale Carnegie

187. “I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.“― Georgia O’Keeffe

188. “A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”

189. “I feel glorious, dynamic energy. I am active and alive.” – Louise Hay

190. “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

191. “Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” ― Alfred North Whitehead

192. “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali

193. “We adore chaos because we love to produce order.”

194. “The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.” – Eric Gill

195. “I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”

196. “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.” Leonardo da Vinci

197. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Aristotle

198. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

199. “It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.“― J. M. W. Turner

200. “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” – Charles Bukowski

201. “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

202. “Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse

203. “The big art is our life.” — Mary Caroline Richards

204. “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” – John Ruskin

205. “Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.” – Kehinde Wiley

206. “I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

207. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

208. “Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.” Elizabeth Gilbert

209. “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”

210. “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”

211. “The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.” – Paul Klee

212. “If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper

213. “Art is an experience, not an object.” – Robert Motherwell

214. “Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” – Edvard Munch

215. “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” – Osho

216. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystery.” – Albert Einstein

217. “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw

218. “If you don’t do it someone else will.”

219. “The big artist…keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.”

220. “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” Edith Södergran

221. “A picture is a poem without words.” -Horace

222. There is no must in art, because art is free. - Wassily Kandinsky

223. “I paint flowers so they will not die.“― Frida Kahlo

224. “I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.” – Yayoi Kusama

225. “Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.” – Ossie Davis

226. “Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.” – Maya Angelou

227. “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.”

228. “The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” – Frank Barron

229. “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

230. “Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.” ― Barbara Mason

231. “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo

232. “It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.“― Paul Cezanne

233. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. - Jonathan Swift

234. “Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.”

235. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.“― Albert Einstein

236. “In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.” Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

237. Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. - Pablo Picasso

238. “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.” — Alfred North Whitehead

239. “The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” Vincent Van Gogh

240. “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

241. “It takes a very long time to become young.”

242. “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until i set him free.” – Michelangelo

243. “Art is too important not to share.”― Romero Britto

244. “It is not enough to know your craft, you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.“― Edouard Manet

245. “I make art to show my soul that I am listening.” – Pat Wiederspan Jones

246. “In art as in love, instinct is enough.” — Anatole France

247. “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” – Piet Mondrian

248. “Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.“― Kimon Nicolaides

249. “The work of art is a scream of freedom.” – Christo

250. “Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.” Yo-Yo Ma

251. “Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.” — E. M. Forster

252. “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.“― Charles Cooley

253. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” Pablo Picasso

254. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

255. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” Henry Ward Beecher

256. “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

257. “Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso

258. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” Ken Robinson

259. “Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer... but never judge it.“― Nick Bantock

260. “A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.” – Eugene Ionesco

261. This world is but a canvas to our imagination. - Henry David Thoreau

262. “Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.“― Gustav Klimt

263. “Every good painter paints what he is.”

264. “I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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266. “Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.” – Leon Trotsky

267. “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.” Michelangelo

268. “Those who do not want to imitate anything produce nothing.“― Salvador Dali

269. “An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.“― Michelangelo

270. “The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” - Bruce Lee

271. “The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.“― Agnes Martin

272. “A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”

273. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross

274. The artist is not a special kind of person; rather, each person is a special kind of artist. - Ananda Coomaraswamy

275. “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

276. “Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.” Brenda Ueland

277. “The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.” — Alan Moore

278. “For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.“― Brian Froud

279. “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.” – Donatella Versace

280. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” - John W. Gardner

281. “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”

282. “Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.” – Yo-Yo Ma

283. “There are no rules to creativity.” – Laura Jaworski

284. “Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.” ― Elizabeth Bowen

285. “The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

286. “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” Pablo Picasso

287. “I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the ‘Mona Lisa’ with a two-inch brush.”

288. “Art, freedom, and creativity will change society faster than politics.” Victor Pinchuk

289. “I do not want ART for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”

290. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” Vincent van Gogh

291. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” Leonardo da Vinci

292. “Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”

293. “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'” Vincent Van Gogh

294. “I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

295. “YOU ARE BRAVER THAN YOU BELIEVE, STRONGER THAN YOU SEEM, AND SMARTER THAN YOU THINK.”

296. There is no innovation and creativity without failure. - Brené Brown

297. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” Vincent Van Gogh

298. “The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.” Banksy

299. “Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.“― Anselm Kiefer

300. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.“― Pablo Picasso

301. “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.” „

302. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.“― Friedrich Nietzsche

303. “Art is to console those who are broken by life.” Vincent van Gogh

304. “I LIKE TO SURROUND MYSELF WITH CREATIVE PEOPLE. THEY LOVE LIFE IN SUCH A CONTAGIOUS WAY THAT CAN’T OFTEN BE PUT INTO WORDS.”

305. “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

306. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” Pablo Picasso

307. “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” – René Magritte

308. “Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.” –Giotto di Bondone

309. “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

310. “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” – Bill Moyers

311. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” Oscar Wilde

312. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.“― Neil Gaiman

313. “Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.” — Auguste Rodin

314. “He who works with his hands is a labourer. 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

315. “It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.” Berthe Morisot

316. “The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”

317. “Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.” – Maria Montessori

318. “I wish they would only take me as I am.” Vincent Van Gogh

319. “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” Marc Chagall

320. “In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

321. “Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth.“― Pablo Picasso

322. “When I feel a little confused the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.”

323. “Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.“― Alfred Hitchcock

324. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” Marc Chagall

325. “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

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327. “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

328. “What is art but a way of seeing?” –Saul Bellow

329. “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

330. “What keeps my heart awake is colourful silence.“― Claude Monet

331. “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.“― William Faulkner

332. “AITA? I Went On Vacation With My Friend And Her Family, They Kicked Me Out So I Got My Own Room And Stayed On”

333. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

334. “A good artist has less time than ideas.” – Martin Kippenberger

335. “Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole.” – Louise Bourgeois

336. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

337. “Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” – Marc Chagall

338. “It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.”

339. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo da Vinci

340. Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance. - Jon Franklin

341. “As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.”

342. “Drawing is like making an expressive gesture, with the advantage of permanence.“― Henri Matisse

343. “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” Salvador Dali

344. “I invent nothing, I rediscover.” – Auguste Rodin

345. “Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.”

346. “You can’t use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have.” –Maya Angelou

347. “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth – at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”

348. “A blank canvas… has unlimited possibilities.”

349. “Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.” Rene Magritte

350. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr Suess

351. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.“― Pablo Picasso

352. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

353. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.“― Kurt Vonnegut

354. “Art is never finished, only abandoned” Leonardo Da Vinci

355. “A true masterpiece does not tell everything.” – Albert Camus

356. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

357. “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.“― Frida Kahlo

358. “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ” Lady Gaga

359. “There is no must in art because art is free.”

360. “Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso

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362. “The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson

363. “There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.” - Edward De Bono

364. “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

365. “We have art in order not to die of the truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche

366. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.“― Pablo Picasso

367. “Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.” Don Miguel Ruiz

368. “YOU WERE BORN AN ORIGINAL. DON’T DIE A COPY.”

369. “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

370. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” –John W. Gardner

371. “Every artists dips her brush into her own soul, and paints her own truth into her pictures.” – Datura

372. “Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.” Laurie Halse Anderson

373. “There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.”

374. “A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.” – Hedy Lamarr

375. “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – Andre Gide

376. “Create with the heart; build with the mind.” - Criss Jami

377. “There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”

378. The mission of art is to represent nature, not to imitate her. - William Morris Hunt

379. “It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.” – John Saxe

380. “Painting from nature is not copying the object, it's realizing one's sensations.“― Paul Cezanne

381. “Do more than just exist.”

382. “Art is not a thing, it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard

383. “You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.” – Robert Kiyosaki

384. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.“― Stella Adler

385. “LEARN THE RULES LIKE A PRO SO YOU CAN BREAK THEM LIKE AN ARTIST”

386. “MY MISSION IN LIFE IS NOT MERELY TO SURVIVE BUT TO THRIVE AND TO DO SO WITH SOME PASSION, SOME COMPASSION, SAME HUMOUR AND SOME STYLE.”

387. Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. - Neville Brody

388. Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul, and you answer. - Terri Guillemets

389. “Be brave.”

390. “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”

391. “Art is what you can get away with.” – Andy Warhol

392. “An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”

393. “Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.“― David Hockney

394. “The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” Lester Bangs

395. “I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.” ― Ansel Adams

396. “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.” – Vincent Van Gogh

397. “A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.” – Paul Cézanne

398. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” –Ayn Rand

399. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

400. “Art should be something that liberates your soul.” – Keith Haring

401. “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

402. “Go out and paint the stars.” – Van Gogh

403. Through a painting, we can see the whole world. - Hans Hofmann

404. “Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.“― Jackson Pollock

405. “I just feel that I’m in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I’m in the process of working.”

406. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou

407. “A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

408. “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

409. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso

410. “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” – René Magritte

411. “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” Charles Mingus

412. “One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.”― Sonia Delaunay

413. “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

414. “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. 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.”

415. “Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt

416. “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” Charles Horton Cooley

417. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde

418. “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

419. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

420. “YOU’LL TURN OUT ORDINARY IF YOU’RE NOT CAREFUL”

421. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

422. “Every canvas is a journey all its own.”

423. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon

424. “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

425. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

426. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” - Sylvia Plath

427. “Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.“― Al Hirschfeld

428. “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” – Pablo Picasso

429. “The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud

430. “ART WILL REMAIN THE MOST ASTONISHING ACTIVITY OF MANKIND BORN OUT OF STRUGGLE BETWEEN WISDOM AND MADNESS”

431. “All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.”

432. You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. - Maya Angelou

433. “Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.” – Albert Einstein

434. “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.“― Pablo Picasso

435. “The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.” ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton

436. “The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.” -Dale Carnegie

437. “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” – Michelangelo

438. “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”

439. Art is not a thing, it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard

440. “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

441. “You were born to make art.” – Anonymous

442. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” Erich Fromm

443. “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

444. “Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” – Anonymous

445. “I was created to create.”

446. “Art is a way of recognizing oneself.” – Louise Bourgeois

447. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Andy Warhol

448. “Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.” — Henri Matisse

449. “What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

450. The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Vincent Van Gogh

451. “Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”

452. “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.“― Marc Chagall

453. “Anything I can not transform into something marvellous, 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

454. “A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” Jorge Luis Borges

455. “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”

456. “To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and commonsense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms ofchildhood visions and dreams.”

457. “Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend.” – John Singer Sargent

458. “Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things landscapes, season, weather, occasions, incidents, people that would otherwise have melted from my memory.“― David Gentleman

459. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James Whistler

460. “You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

461. “EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL.”

462. “If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for?”

463. “You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there's no such thing as a cautious creative.” - George Lois

464. “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free” Michelangelo

465. “I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us” – Mary Oliver

466. “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” –Robert Schumann

467. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James McNeill Whistler

468. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

469. “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper

470. “The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski

471. “I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.”

472. “In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

473. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” -Francis Bacon

474. “It doesn’t matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.” – Jackson Pollock

475. “Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” Edgar Degas

476. “Art is just another way of keeping a diary.” –Pablo Picasso

477. “Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.” Salvador Dali

478. “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’” – Vincent Van Gogh

479. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

480. “Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working." - Henri Matisse

481. “Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.” John Olsen

482. “If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper

483. “I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” Frida Kahlo

484. “It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.”

485. “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.”

486. “Drawing is vision on paper.“― Andrew Loomis

487. “What moves those of genius, 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

488. “Creativity takes courage.”

489. “The world is only as free as it allows its artists to be.” – Rick Rubin

490. “Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”

491. “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” - Mary Lou Cook

492. “Every artist was first an amateur.”

493. “There are no rules to creativity” – Laura Jaworski

494. “In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece.“― Kai Greene

495. “Amateurs look for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Chuck Close

496. “That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.” Ray Bradbury

497. “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

498. “A true masterpiece does not tell everything.“― Albert Camus

499. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.“― Pablo Picasso

500. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

501. “Go to your studio and make stuff.” – Fred Babb

502. “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

503. “Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”

504. “In drawing, one must look for or suspect that there is more than is casually seen.“― George Bridgman

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506. “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.“― Salvador Dali

507. “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” Rene Magritte

508. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

509. “Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.” - Austin Kleon

510. “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

511. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

512. “Making art is the most relaxing, joyous, therapeutic stimulating way to spend your time, as you unleash the part of your brain that's been itching to get at it.“― Harley Brown

513. “There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.” – Helen Frankenthaler

514. “In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.” — Edward Hopper

515. “The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski

516. “Art is the highest form of hope.” – Gerhard Richter

517. “I’m not the average girl from your video and I ain’t built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because I am a queen.” – India Arie

518. “I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.” – Arsene Wenger

519. “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” Michelangelo

520. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

521. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” James McNeill Whistler

522. “I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.“― David Lynch

523. “Art is a harmony parallel with nature.” –Paul Cezanna

524. “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” Edwin Land

525. “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” William Plomer

526. “I aspire to inspire before I expire.”

527. “Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.”

528. “During my process, I use form, line, shape, and colour to re-examine and reaffirm who I am when external constructs slip away. This study allows me to express deep stirrings to which I can’t place words.” Under a Blanket of Stars (dreaming) by Kara Mandel

529. “Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . „

530. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” Francis Bacon

531. “Art speaks where words are unable to explain.” – Unknown

532. “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.“― Robert Hughes

533. “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw

534. “In art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished.” – Mary Cassatt

535. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

536. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath

537. “It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.” Mark Rothko

538. “Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” -Jean Cocteau

539. “The creative adult is the child who survived.” - ​​Ursula Le Guin

540. “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

541. “The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” Jerzy Kosinski

542. “In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.”

543. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” – Alberto Giacometti

544. “When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a ‘get acquainted period’ that I see what I've been about.“― Jackson Pollock

545. “Art is to console those who are broken by life”

546. “Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.” – Leo Tolstoy

547. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”

548. “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” Frida Kahlo

549. “THERE ARE FAR BETTER THINGS AHEAD THAN ANY WE LEAVE BEHIND”

550. “A picture is a work of art, not because it is ‘modern,’ nor because it is ‘ancient,’ but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.” – John F. Carlson

551. “No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble disheartens the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

552. … and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

553. “It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.” – Louise Bourgeois

554. “An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.” Paul Valéry

555. “Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.“― Georges Braque

556. “If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.” – Albrecht Dürer

557. “When I paint, I never think of selling. People fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.“ ― Edvard Munch

558. “Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” – Steven Pressfield

559. “A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.”

560. “The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet

561. “I call the process of doing your art ‘the work.’ It’s possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that’s how you become a linchpin. The job is not the work.”

562. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

563. “Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.” – Pope John Paul II

564. “Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”

565. “If there is no way, create one.”

566. Inspiration does exist.. but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

567. “If the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, nature rewards him by giving him inspiration.” – Wassily Kandinsky

568. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” Leonardo da Vinci

569. “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

570. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

571. “The most interesting thing about artists is how they live.” – Marcel Duchamp

572. “Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.” Hugh MacLeod

573. “A Good artist has less time than ideas.” Martin Kippenberger

574. “The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.“― Keith Haring

575. “To create one’s own world takes courage.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

576. “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.” – Neil Gaiman

577. “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”

578. “Art is the objectification of feeling.” — Herman Melville

579. “TO LIVE A LIFE, WE MUST LOSE OUR FEAR OF BEING WRONG”

580. “What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap.” – Marcel Duchamp

581. “The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity.” – Walt Whitman

582. “A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” George Moore

583. “NOBODY IS PERFECT, THATS WHY PENCILS HAVE ERASERS.”

584. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”

585. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” Stella Adler

586. “The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” –Barbara Januszkiewicz

587. “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.“― Bertolt Brecht

588. “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” – Marc Chagall

589. “Art is to console those who are broken by life.” – Vincent Van Gogh

590. “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

591. “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand

592. “Art transcends cultural boundaries.” – Thomas Kinkade

593. “Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.“― John Dewey

594. “To create one’s own world takes courage.”

595. “I can’t clean my craft room because I get distracted by all the good stuff I find again.” Sizzix.com

596. “The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.” –William Morris Hunt

597. “NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN STOP AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME”

598. “Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.” – John Olsen

599. “The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.“― Wassily Kandinsky

600. “The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature.” – George Inness

601. “Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí

602. “Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.”

603. “Every good painter paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock

604. “There is no healthier drug than creativity.” Nayyirah Waheed

605. “The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.” –D.H. Lawrence

606. “The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” – Julia Cameron

607. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”

608. “I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.” Francis Bacon

609. “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.”

610. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”

611. “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”

612. “If I knew what the picture was going to be like, I wouldn’t make it.” – Cindy Sherman

613. “… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

614. Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

615. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” Bob Ross

616. “The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” – Robert Henri

617. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” — Pablo Picasso

618. “All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.” ― Iris Murdoch

619. “WHEN YOU BUY SOMETHING FROM AN ARTIST, YOU’RE BUYING MORE THAN AN OBJECT. YOU’RE BUYING HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF ERRORS AND EXPERIMENTATION. YOU’RE BUYING YEARS OF FRUSTRATION AND MOMENTS OF JOY. YOU’RE NOT BUYING JUST ONE THING, YOU ARE BUYING A PIECE OF HEART, A PIECE OF A SOUL… A SMALL PIECE OF SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE.”

620. “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

621. “Art has many avenues; love is carried through many vessels. Your oceans are your colours, your ship is your brush and your treasures are in your heart.“― Moncy Barbour

622. “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

623. “YOU HAVE SO MUCH BUT ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY FOR MORE. STOP LOOKING UP AT EVERYTHING YOU DON’T HAVE AND LOOK AROUND AT EVERYTHING YOU DO.”

624. “Far better to live your own path imperfectly than to live another’s perfectly.” –Bhagavad Gita

625. “All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.” Bob Ross

626. “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” Martha Graham

627. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath

628. “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” Georgia O’Keeffe

629. “What is that you express in your eyesIt seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

630. “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” — George Bernard Shaw

631. “I don't say everything, but I paint everything.” Pablo Picasso

632. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

633. “Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.” Madeleine L’Engle

634. “The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.”

635. “I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.” – Albrecht Dürer

636. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

637. “Who says that my dreams have to stay just my dreams?”

638. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

639. “Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

640. “What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.” Deepak Chopra

641. “Deadlines and things make you creative.” - Jack White

642. “Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” Edvard Munch

643. “To my mind one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.” – Paul Cézanne

644. “Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.” – Voltaire

645. “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 colours flowers, so does art colour life.“― John Lubbock

646. “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”

647. “Like chickens through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.”

648. “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

649. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

650. “Every canvas is a journey all its own.” – Helen Frankenthaler

651. “Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.” – John Wooden

652. “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí

653. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

654. Life beats you down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

655. “Creativity takes courage. ” Henri Matisse

656. “Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus

657. “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. „

658. “Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso

659. “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin

660. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.“― Henry David Thoreau

661. You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. - Horace

662. “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

663. A TRUE ARTIST IS NOT ONE WHO IS INSPIRED BUT ONE WHO INSPIRES OTHERS.

664. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you. - Salvador Dali

665. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” ― Marc Chagall

666. “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

667. “All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.“― Susan Sontag

668. “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” – Pablo Picasso

669. “Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.” – Edward de Bono

670. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” - Vincent Van Gogh

671. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

672. “Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.” – Ai Weiwei

673. “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” Piet Mondrian

674. “If we go for the easy way, we never change.” – Marina Abramović

675. “Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” – Keith Haring

676. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” Banksy

677. “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

678. “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

679. “I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”

680. “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing–and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

681. “Art must take reality by surprise.” -Francoise Sagan

682. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle

683. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

684. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

685. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

686. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

687. “Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.”

688. “It isn’t until the painter has no idea what he’s doing that he makes good paintings.” – Edgar Degas

689. “It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.”― Jack Kirby

690. “In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.”

691. “You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

692. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore

693. “There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky

694. “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.“― Leonardo da Vinci

695. “When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?””

696. “Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.“― Susan Sontag

697. “When you do things for their own sake, that’s when you create your best work. That’s when it’s art.“― Naval Ravikant

698. “It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover, to your surprise, that you have rendered something in its true character.“― Camille Pissarro

699. “CHOOSE TO POSITIVE, IT FEELS BETTER.”

700. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.“― Oscar Wilde

701. “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

702. “Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” –Marcel Proust

703. “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

704. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

705. “Art is anything you can get away with.” – Andy Warhol

706. “There is no must in art because art is free.” Wassily Kandinsky

707. “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” Robert Hughes

708. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” Joseph Chilton Pearce

709. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.“― Henry Ward Beecher

710. “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” – Oscar Wilde

711. “Art is the proper task of life. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

712. “Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

713. “I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.”

714. “The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” - Robert Henri

715. “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.”― Dorothea Tanning

716. “The great artist is the simplifier.” – Vincent van Gogh

717. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” Brene Brown

718. Art is literacy of the heart. - Elliot Eisner

719. “Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.“― Marc Davis

720. “The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of ‘life.” — Keith Haring

721. “I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”― Roy Lichtenstein

722. “WHO YOU ARE TOMORROW, BEGINS WITH WHAT YOU DO TODAY.”

723. “There is no must in art because art is free.“― Wassily Kandinsky

724. “I have too many paint bottles. Said no one ever.” Unknown

725. “Art is never finished, only abandoned.“― Leonardo da Vinci

726. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

727. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

728. “There is no must in art because art is free.” Wassily Kandinsky

729. EXHALE THE BULLSHIT

730. “The painting has a life of its own.”

731. “I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent van Gogh

732. “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh

733. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” Twyla Tharp

734. “Practice what you know and it will help you to make clear what you do not know.“― Rembrandt

735. “The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” Paul Strand

736. “Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” Claude Monet

737. “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

738. “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.”

739. “Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser

740. Art doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful. - Duane Hanson

741. “Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” Stephen Sondheim

742. “An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.” ― Paul Cezanne

743. “THE OPPOSITE OF A GOOD IDEA”, NEW BLOG POST, LINK IN PR🙄FILE (QUOTE BY VICTOR HUGO ON A MURAL BY @MICHAEL_PAULUS AND @JEANNEMAREWERLE )

744. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol

745. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw

746. “YOU CAN’T USE UP CREATIVITY. THE MORE YOU USE THE MORE YOU HAVE.”

747. “The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” Auguste Rodin

748. “The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.”

749. “There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.” Henry Moore

750. “Art is to console those who are broken by life.”

751. “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

752. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall

753. “Inhale possibility, exhale creativity.” – Laura Jaworski

754. “Art is coming face to face with yourself.” – Jackson Pollock

755. “Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.” Paul Cezanne

756. “The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.” – Kehinde Wiley

757. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” Friedrich Nietzsche

758. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

759. “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

760. “Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.” – Steven Pressfield

761. “If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

762. “The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” — Paul Getty

763. “An idea is salvation by imagination”

764. “A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” ― Albert Camus

765. “To my mind a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful and pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is, without creating still more of them.“― Pierre-Auguste Renoir

766. “No artist tolerates reality.” – Nietzsche

767. “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

768. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” — James Whistler

769. “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” Oscar Wilde

770. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” -Henry David Thoreau

771. “Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” – Claude Monet

772. “Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.” — Khalil Gibran

773. “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” - Oprah Winfrey

774. “The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.” ― Hilton Kramer

775. “Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.“― Dale Carnegie

776. “Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” — John Ruskin

777. “One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience.“― Ursula K. Le Guin

778. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

779. “The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.“― Eric Gill

780. “Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” –Leo Tolstoy

781. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” Emile Zola

782. “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”

783. A picture is a poem without words. - Horace

784. “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

785. “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” Pablo Picasso

786. “A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life” - Elizabeth Gilbert

787. “The work of art must seize upon you…carry you away.” ― Pierre-Auguste Renoir

788. “Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”

789. “Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” Theodore Dreiser

790. “It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.” – Berthe Morisot

791. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” –Pablo Picasso

792. “The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.“― David Bowie