Art And Artists Quotes:
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
source: Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated
topic: Art, Creative, Would Be, Inspirational Artist, Inspiring Art
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Art, Fine Arts, Inspirational Art
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
source: Newsweek, May 16, 1955.
topic: Art, Speak, Plant, Horticulture, Art And Artists
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
topic: Art, Experience, Painting, Inspirational Artist, Inspiring Art
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
topic: Art, Philosophy, Philosophical, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
topic: Art, Self Discovery, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
topic: Art, Pain, Inspiration, Joining Hands, Inspiration And Art
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
topic: Life, Music, Beautiful, Jazz Musician, Inspiration And Creativity
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
topic: Music, Art, Creative, Fine Arts, Individualistic
source: Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882. 
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
topic: Life, Art, Diaries, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Artist
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
source: "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.
topic: Life, Wisdom, Art, Inspiration And Creativity, Amazing Experiences
topic: Art, Eye, Soul, Painting And Art, Painting Art
topic: Inspirational, Music, Peace, Music Artist, Self Actualization
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Art, Fine Arts, Self-doubt
source: Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”
topic: Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists, Inspiring Art, Art And Creativity
topic: Art, Creativity, Poetry, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
topic: Art, Emotion, Works Of Art, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
source: Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”
topic: Art, Reality, Intensity, Inspiring Art, Inspiring Artist
A Good artist has less time than ideas.
topic: Art, Ideas, Artist, Inspirational Art, Brilliant Ideas
topic: Creativity, Thinking, Self, Amazing Things, Creative People
topic: Inspirational, Success, God, Giraffe, Art And Creativity
The only thing I know is that I know nothing
topic: Philosophical, Painting And Art, Painting Art, Feminist Art, Woman Artist
topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Art, Spider Web
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
source: New Spirit (1890) "Tolstoi"
topic: Art, Writing, Architecture, Art And Artists
source: Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE
topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Creative Artists, Passion For Art
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
topic: Life, Art, Inspiration, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
source: "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.
topic: Life, Art, Dust, Fine Arts, Jazz And Life
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
topic: Art, Failure, Positive Thoughts, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
topic: Art, Practice, Follow Your Dreams, Inspiration And Art, Inspiration And Creativity
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Inspiration And Art, Inspiration And Creativity
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
topic: Tattoo, Art, Garden, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
source: Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro
topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Art, Inspiration And Creativity
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
topic: Life, Beautiful, Christian, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
source: "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".
topic: Beauty, Dance, Art, Impressionists, Impressionism
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
source: "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
topic: Life, Beauty, Beautiful, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin
topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
source: Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
topic: Funny, Witty, Life Changing, Creativeness, Creative People
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
topic: Art, Children, Years, Inspiring Art, Painting And Art
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
topic: Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity, Amazing Things, Creative People
topic: Life, Beautiful, Stupid, Being Truthful, Creative Artists
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
topic: Art, Artist, Artistic, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists
source: Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin
topic: Drawing, Long, People, Art And Artists
topic: Art, Lying, Realizing, Inspiration And Art, Cubism