Artists Minds Quotes:

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

- Paul Valery

topic: Art, Artist, Artistic, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists

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

topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Art, Spider Web

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Success, God, Giraffe, Art And Creativity

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Creativity, Artist, Design, Copycats, Good Design

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Art, Business, Acting, Fine Arts, Inspirational Artist

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Life, Beautiful, Christian, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Art, Business, Thinking, Fine Artists, Good Artist

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

- Stella Adler

source: Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

topic: Life, Music, Crush, Inspiration And Art, Inspiring Art

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Art, Sacrifice, Self, Individual Talent, Self Sacrifice

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

- Henry Moore

topic: Art, Jobs, Mistake, Sculptors, Artists Minds

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

- Henri Matisse

topic: Art, Flower, Rose, Exactitude, White Rose

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Art, Lying, Perfect, Crayon, Pencil Sharpeners

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Attitude, Children, Creativity, Inspiration And Creativity, Inspire Creativity

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

- Dee Hock

topic: Creativity, Mind, Creative People, Creative Artists, Inspire Creativity

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

- Martha Graham

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dance, Wisdom, Artist, Inspirational Artist, Dancers Inspiration

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

- George Santayana

source: Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

topic: Dream, Art, Design, Artistry, Artists Minds

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Inspirational, Music, Peace, Music Artist, Self Actualization

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Art, Pain, Book, Inspirational Artist, Art Life

I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Empty Space, Commercial Art, Fine Artists, Artistry, Artists Minds

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

source: Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation

topic: Art, Creativity, Serenity, Fine Artists, Artists And Life

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

- Robert Schumann

topic: Inspiring, Art, Men, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Artist