You are a creative person who needs a Boost of inspiration?
In this blog post, I have 101 quotes by famous artists to motivate you.
These quotes are funny, smart, and pretty helpful when you take the time to appreciate them.
Get inspired by them!
They will make you happy, passionate, and purposeful.
They will also teach you how to overcome challenges and improve your drawing skills daily!
1. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
2. “The purpose of art is to make the invisible visible.” – Paul Klee
3. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
4. “Art is the highest form of hope.” – Gerhard Richter
5. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
6. “Art is the language of the soul.” – Barbara De Angelis
7. “Art is a way of recognizing oneself.” – Louise Bourgeois
8. “Art is the proper task of life.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
9. “Art is the reflection of the soul.” – Mary Woronov
10. “Art is the signature of civilizations.” – Beverly Sills
11. “Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all – oneself.” – Lilian Gish
12. “Art is the lie that tells the truth.” – Jean Cocteau
13. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde
14. “Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy
15. “Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.” – Albert Einstein
16. “Art is the highest form of human expression.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
17. “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” – Leonardo da Vinci
19. “Art is the only way to escape without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
20. “Art is the only way to express what cannot be said.” – Unknown
21. “Art is the only way to see the invisible.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
22. “Art is the only way to understand the world.” – Jean Dubuffet
23. “Art is the realization of a dream in the reality of life.” – Paul Gauguin
24. “Art is the soul made visible.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
25. “Art is the triumph over chaos.” – John Cheever
26. “Art is the ultimate expression of human creativity.” – Unknown
27. “Art is what makes life more interesting than art.” – Robert Filliou
28. “Art is what you can get away with.” – Andy Warhol
29. “Art is where work meets love.” – Unknown
30. “Art is without boundaries.” – Unknown
31. “Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page.”
– Sara, The Artful Parent
36. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – Cesar Cruz
37. “Art should evoke emotion.” – Unknown
38. “Art should inspire and provoke.” – Unknown
39. “Art should make you feel something.” – Unknown
40. “Art should make you think.” – Unknown
41. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso
42. “Artistic expression is a doorway to the soul.” – Unknown
43. “Artistic expression is the language of the soul.” – Unknown
44. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” – Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
45. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
46. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
47. “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall
49. “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
50. “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” – Pablo Picasso
51. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
52. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent van Gogh
53. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
54. “In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” – Danny Kaye
56. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
57. “Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” – Oscar Wilde
59. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso
60. “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas
61. “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” – Plutarch
62. “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
63. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Émile Zola
64. “The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.” – George Bellows
65. “The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.” – Robert Rauschenberg
66. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle
67. “The object of art is to give life a shape.” – William Shakespeare
68. “The purpose of art is to make the invisible visible.” – Paul Klee
69. “The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.” – Suzanne Langer
70. “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” – Michelangelo
71. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman
72. “There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso
73. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore
74. “To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would – I don’t know, I wish it upon everybody. It’s heaven.” – André 3000
75. “To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.” – Pablo Picasso
76. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” – Kurt Vonnegut
77. “True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” – Albert Einstein
78. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross
79. “What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” – John Updike
80. “What is art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the real.” – Rabindranath Tagore
Quote from Rabindranath Tagore81. “When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing.” – Jackson Pollock
82. “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” – John Ruskin
83. “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw
84. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
85. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams
86. “You don’t make art out of good intentions.” – Gustave Flaubert
87. “You don’t make art, you find it.” – Pablo Picasso
88. “You don’t need any brains to listen to music.” – Luciano Pavarotti
89. “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’
But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? – George Bernard Shaw
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