Inspiring Art Quotes:
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
topic: Art, Self Discovery, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person
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
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
source: Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing
topic: Inspiring, Art, Flower, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts
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
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
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
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
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Art, Fine Arts, Self-doubt
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
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
topic: Art, Artist, Artistic, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Art, Breathing Space, Inspirational Art
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
topic: Inspiring, Art, Creativity, Inspirational Art, Creative Artists
source: Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”
topic: Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists, Inspiring Art, Art And Creativity
source: Catherine Duncan, Paul Strand, Aperture Foundation (1994). “Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait”
topic: Art, Feet, World, Inspirational Artist, Inspiring Art
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
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
topic: Art, Expression, Expressions Of Love, Inspiration And Creativity, Inspiring Art
source: Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”
topic: Art, Hate, Creativity, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
topic: Music, Running, Witty, Creative Artists, Inspiring Art
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
topic: Music, Art, Creative, Fine Arts, Individualistic
topic: Art, Creativity, Poetry, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
topic: Tattoo, Art, Garden, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
topic: Life, Art, Inspiration, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Inspiration And Art, Inspiration And Creativity
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
source: Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”
topic: Inspirational, Photography, Creativity, Inspiring Art, Inspiring Photography
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
topic: Art, Failure, Positive Thoughts, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, 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
topic: Creativity, People, Creative, Unique Experiences, Creative People
topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Art, Spider Web
topic: Life, Beautiful, Stupid, Being Truthful, Creative Artists
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
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
topic: Art, Experience, Painting, Inspirational Artist, Inspiring Art
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
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
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
topic: Art, Hands, Imagine, Inspirational Art, 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
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
source: Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
topic: Love, Life, Strength, Fine Arts, Souls In Love
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
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
topic: Inspirational, Courage, Art, Inspirational Art, Creative Artists
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
topic: Life, Art, Diaries, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Artist