Inspiring Artist Quotes:
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
topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Art, Spider Web
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
topic: Life, Art, Diaries, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Artist
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: "Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects)". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1745.
topic: Money, Art, Winning, Inspiring Artist, Winners And Winning
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
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Inspiration And Art, Inspiration And Creativity
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
topic: Music, Art, Creative, Fine Arts, Individualistic
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
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
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
topic: Art, Failure, Positive Thoughts, 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
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
source: Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing
topic: Inspiring, Art, Flower, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
topic: Art, Pain, Inspiration, Joining Hands, 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
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
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
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
topic: Tattoo, Art, Garden, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
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
topic: Art, Creativity, Poetry, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
topic: Life, Art, Inspiration, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art
topic: Life, Beautiful, Stupid, Being Truthful, Creative Artists
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
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
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
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
topic: Christian, Art, Perfection, Fine Arts, Inspirational Art
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
topic: Art, Travel, Adventure, Inspiring Artist, Adventurous Souls
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
topic: Music, Art, World, Inspirational Artist, Inspiring Art
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
topic: Art, Hands, Imagine, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
topic: Art, Experience, Painting, Inspirational Artist, Inspiring Art
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful, Individual Morality, Spiritual Gratitude
topic: Artist, Ideas, Students, Inspiring Artist