Famous Artist Quotes:
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
topic: Music, Art, Creative, Fine Arts, Individualistic
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
topic: Art, Self Discovery, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 
topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Music, Happy Children, Fine Arts
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
topic: Tattoo, Art, Garden, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
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
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
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
topic: Art, Pain, Inspiration, Joining Hands, Inspiration And Art
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
topic: Art, Emotion, Works Of Art, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
topic: Art, Failure, Positive Thoughts, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
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
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
topic: Spiritual, Art, Collaboration, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Artist
topic: Art, Lying, Realizing, Inspiration And Art, Cubism
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Being Blessed, Humble Person
topic: Art, Creativity, Poetry, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art
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
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
topic: Art, Dust, Soul, Purpose Of Art, Washing
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
topic: Art, Hands, Doe, Mona Lisa, Art And Creativity
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
topic: Life, Art, Inspiration, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
topic: Art, People, Want, Starry Night, Painting And Art
There is no must in art because art is free.
source: Wassily Kandinsky (1981). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.52, Library of Alexandria
topic: Art, Art Is, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
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
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
topic: Inspirational, Courage, Art, Inspirational Art, Creative Artists
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
topic: Art, Artist, Perfection, Perfection And Imperfection, Famous Artist
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
topic: Art, Artist, Artistic, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists
topic: Artist, Etc, No Fear, Expressionism, Landscape Painting
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
topic: Art, Experience, Painting, Inspirational Artist, Inspiring Art
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
topic: Inspirational, Art, Ideas, Fine Arts, Cubism
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
topic: Art, Business, Acting, Fine Arts, Inspirational Artist
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
topic: Moving, Ideas, Inspire, Fine Arts, Inspirational Artist
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
topic: Art, Paint, Fine Arts, Inspirational Art, Cubism
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
source: Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Creativity, Inspirational Art
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
source: Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed
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
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Art, Inspiration And Creativity
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
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
topic: Life, Art, Angel, Fine Arts, Inspirational Art
topic: Art, Eye, Soul, Painting And Art, Painting 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
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful, Individual Morality, Spiritual Gratitude
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Creative People, Creative Artists
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
topic: Inspiring, Art, Men, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Artist
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
topic: Art, Passion, Alive, Inspirational Art, Painting And Art
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
topic: Life, Art, Diaries, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Artist
source: "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.
topic: Photography, Our World, Understanding, Famous Artist
source: Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press
topic: World, Translate, Famous Artist