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Unlock Your Creativity: 220 Inspiring Art Quotes to Spark Imagination

Welcome to our curated collection of inspiring art quotes!Delve into the world of creativity,passion,and imagination as we explore the profound insights and timeless wisdom expressed by artists throughout history.From renowned painters to contemporary visionaries,these art quotes encapsulate the essence of artistic expression and its profound impact on our lives.Whether you're seeking motivation for your next masterpiece or simply appreciating the beauty of creativity,let these art quotes ignite your imagination and awaken your inner artist.Explore,reflect,and be inspired by the power of art. 

Art Quote: 

1. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

2. “Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso 

3. “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 

4. “Don’t think about making art,just get it done.Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad,whether they love it or hate it.While they are deciding,make even more art.” – Andy Warhol 

5. “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist,and the less the artist does the better.” – Andre Gide 

6. “We don’t make mistakes,just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross 

7. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt,and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci 

8. “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

9. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent van Gogh 

10. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso 

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11. “Color is my day-long obsession,joy and torment.” – Claude Monet 

12. “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 

13. “I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.” – Albrecht Dürer 

14. “In art,what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished.” – Mary Cassatt 

15. “Art is not what you see,but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
16. “A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.” – Paul Cézanne 

17. “Life is art.Art is life.I never separate it.” – Ai Weiwei 

18. “Creativity is contagious,pass it on.” – Albert Einstein 

19. “Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.We come from the Creator with creativity.I think that each one of us is born with creativity.” – Maya Angelou 

20. “Have no fear of perfection,you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali 

Quotes About Art And Creativity: 

21. “You can’t wait for inspiration,you have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London 

22. “Imagination is the beginning of creation.You imagine what you desire,you will what you imagine, and at last,you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw 

23. “Creativity is more than just being different.Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy.What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach.Making the simple,awesomely simple,that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus 

24. “Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.” – Voltaire 

25. “Don’t think.Thinking is the enemy of creativity.It’s self-conscious,and anything self-conscious is lousy.You can’t try to do things.You simply must do things.” – Ray Bradbury

26. “Creativity is just connecting things.When you ask creative people how they did something,they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it,they just saw something.It seemed obvious to them after a while.” – Steve Jobs 

27. “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.” – Cecil B.DeMille 

28. “You see things; and you say,‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw 

29. “Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity,because if you’re passionate about something,then you’re more willing to take risks.” – Yo-Yo Ma 

30. “You can’t use up creativity.The more the you use,the more you have.” –Maya Angelou
Quotes About Art And Life: 

31. “It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.” – John Saxe 

32. “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” – Bill Moyers 

33. “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.” – Earl Nightingale 

34. “Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it.Don’t cheat us of your contribution.Give us what you’ve got.” – Steven Pressfield 

35. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams 

36. “Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser 

37. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton 

38. “Painting is easy when you don’t know how,but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas 

39. “I think of art as the highest level of creativity.To me,it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.” – David Rockefeller 

40. “To practice any art,no matter how well or how badly,is a way to make your soul grow,for heaven’s sake.So do it.” – Kurt Vonnegut 

Quotes On Art And Painting: 

41. “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you.Your voice,your mind,your story,your vision.So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.” – Neil Gaiman 

42. “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.” – Donatella Versace 

43. “I am seeking.I am striving.I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent van Gogh 

44. “If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper 

45. “They always say time changes things,but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
46. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall 

47. “The position of the artist is humble.He is essentially a channel.” – Piet Mondrian 

48. “Those who do not want to imitate anything,produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali 

49. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon 

50. “To create one’s own world takes courage.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
The Power Of Art Quotes: 

51. “The main thing is to be moved,to love,to hope,to tremble,to live.” – Auguste Rodin 

52. “It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.” – Berthe Morisot 

53. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore 

54. “Every good painter paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock 

55. “In art,the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

56. “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant,there is no such thing.Making your unknown known is the important thing.” – Georgia O’Keeffe 

57. “What moves men of genius,or rather what inspires their work,is not new ideas,but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” – Eugene Delacroix 

58. “Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” – Marc Chagall 

59. “Don’t be an art critic,but paint,there lies salvation.” – Paul Cézanne 

60. “If I create from the heart,nearly everything works; if from the head,almost nothing.” – Marc Chagall
Famous Art Quotes: 

61. “A good artist has less time than ideas.” – Martin Kippenberger 

62. “I never paint dreams or nightmares.I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo 

63. “I paint for myself.I don’t know how to do anything else,anyway.Also,I have to earn my living,and occupy myself.” – Francis Bacon 

64. “There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky 

65. “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.” – Leonardo da Vinci 

66. “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery,it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo 

67. “Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye,it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” – Edvard Munch 

68. “Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.” – John Olsen 

69. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp 

70. “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley
Art Quotes For Students: 

71. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” –Leonardo da Vinci 

72. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,but their inward significance.” – Aristotle 

73. “No great artist ever sees things as they really are.If he did,he would cease to be an artist.” – Oscar Wilde 

74. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso 

75. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler
76. “I want to touch people with my art.I want them to say,‘he feels deeply,he feels tenderly.” – Vincent Van Gogh 

77. “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” – Pablo Picasso 

78. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James McNeill Whistler 

79. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh 

80. “Inspiration does exist,but it must find you working.” – Pablo Picasso 

Art Quotes For Kids: 

81. “The artist’s world is limitless.It can be found anywhere,far from where he lives or a few feet away.It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand

82. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr.Seuss 

83. “If a man devotes himself to art,much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.” – Albrecht Dürer 

84. “It took me four years to paint like Raphael,but a lifetime to paint like a child.” – Pablo Picasso 

85. “Art is never finished,only abandoned.” – Leonardo Da Vinci 

86. “Everything has its beauty,but not everyone sees it.” – Andy Warhol 

87. “If you ask me what I came to do in this world,I,an artist,will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” – Émile Zola 

88. “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh 

89. “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

90. “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” – Michelangelo
Best Art Quotes: 

 91. “The object isn’t to make art,it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” – Robert Henri 

92. “I invent nothing,I rediscover.” – Auguste Rodin 

93. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh 

94. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher 

95. “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” – Pablo Picasso 

96. “Creativity is magic.Don’t examine it too closely.” – Edward Albee 

97. “Art is not a thing,it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard 

98. “Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.” – Paul Klee 

99. “Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt 

100. “Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
Art Quotes Celebrating The Power And Beauty Of Creation: 

101. The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman 

102. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse 

103. “You have to systematically create confusion; it sets creativity free.Everything that is contradictory creates life.” – Salvador Dalí 

104. “I think being different,going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.” – Elijah Wood 

105. “The principles of true art is not to portray,but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski
106. “Art is not a mirror to hold up to society,but a hammer with which to shape it.” – Leon Trotsky 

107. “Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.” – Edward de Bono 

108. “Art speaks where words are unable to explain.” – Unknown

109. “The essence of all beautiful art,all great art,is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche 

110. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” – Pablo Picasso 

Unique Art Quotes: 

111. Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.” – Leo Tolstoy 

112. “When I think of art I think of beauty.Beauty is the mystery of life.It is not in the eye it is in the mind.In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” – Agnes Martin 

113. “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” – John F.Kennedy 

114. Instead of worrying about what people say of you,why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.” – Dale Carnegie 

115. “Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life,to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole.” – Louise Bourgeois

116. “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way.An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” – Charles Bukowski 

117. “When love and skill work together,expect a masterpiece.” – John Ruskin 

118. “Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness.It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind.As the sun colors flowers,so does art color life.” – John Lubbock

119. “Personally,I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art.They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.” – Albert Einstein 

120. “The creative process is a process of surrender,not control.” – Julia Cameron
Positive Art Quotes:

121. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,but their inward significance.” – Aristotle 

122. “Art should be something that liberates your soul,provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” – Keith Haring 

123. “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant,there is no such thing.Making your unknown known is the important thing–and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” – Georgia O’Keeffe 

124. “You cannot be all things to all people.Be unique.Be different.Give to others what you want yourself.And do what you were made to do.” – Robert Kiyosaki 

125. “Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be,but to find out who we already are and become it.” – Steven Pressfield
126. “Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.” – Victor Pinchuk 

127. You must not fight too often with one enemy,or you will teach him all your art of war.” – Napoleon Bonaparte 

128. “No difficulty can discourage,no obstacle dismay,no trouble disheartens the man who has acquired the art of being alive.Difficulties are but dares of fate,obstacles but hurdles to try his skill,troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

129. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso 

130. “Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.” – Kehinde Wiley 

Art Quotes On Its Beauty: 

131. “A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.” – Hedy Lamarr 

132. “Be true to yourself.Make each day a masterpiece.Help others.Drink deeply from good books.Make friendship a fine art.Build a shelter against a rainy day.” – John Wooden 

133. “Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact,it can affect change – it can not only move us,it makes us move.” – Ossie Davis 

134. “The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down,and for a moment,things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.” – Kehinde Wiley 

135. “Fine art is that in which the hand,the head,and the heart of man go together.” – John Ruskin
136. “Art is the stored honey of the human soul,gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser 

137. “Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective.They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.” – Denis Waitley 

138. “I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.” – Arsene Wenger 

139. “I believe art is utterly important.It is one of the things that could save us” – Mary Oliver 

140. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality,but to create a reality of the same intensity.” – Alberto Giacometti 

Art Quotes On Its Beauty: 

141. “What moves men of genius,or rather what inspires their work,is not new ideas,but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” – Eugene Delacroix 

142. “I want to touch people with my art.I want them to say ‘he feels deeply,he feels tenderly.’” – Vincent Van Gogh 

143. “To be creative means to be in love with life.You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty,you want to bring a little more music to it,a little more poetry to it,a little more dance to it.” – Osho 

144. “The arts are not a way to make a living.They are a very human way of making life more bearable.Practicing an art,no matter how well or badly,is a way to make your soul grow.” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 

145. Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent,but must develop it.” – Pope John Paul II 

146. Imagination does not become great until human beings,given the courage and the strength,use it to create.” – Maria Montessori 

147. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore 

148. “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” – René Magritte 

149. “What art is,in reality,is this missing link,not the links which exist.It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap.” – Marcel Duchamp 

150. “The work of art is a scream of freedom.” – Christo
Art Quotes For Work: 

151. “A picture is a work of art,not because it is‘modern,’nor because it is‘ancient,’but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.” – John F.Carlson 

152. “Art is the desire of a man to express himself,to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell 

153. The object of Art is to give life a shape.” – William Shakespeare 

154. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde 

155. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
156. Without art,the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw 

157. “Art is the highest form of hope.” – Gerhard Richter 

158. “A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.” – Eugene Ionesco 

159. “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist,and the less the artist does the better.” – Andre Gide 

160. The art of art,the glory of expression,and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity.” – Walt Whitman 

Art Quotes To Bring Beauty To Your Day: 

161. “Art is not a handicraft,it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” -Leo Tolstoy 

162. “Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” –Marcel Proust 

163. “Art is a harmony parallel with nature.” -Paul Cezanna 

164. “The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.” -William Morris Hunt 

165. “Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.” -Giotto di Bondone
166. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” –Thomas Merton 

167. “The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.” -D.H.Lawrence 

168. “Art is the daughter of freedom.” -Friedrich Schiller 

169. “Art is just another way of keeping a diary.” -Pablo Picasso 

170. “What is art but a way of seeing?” -Saul Bellow 

Beautiful Art Quotes: 

171. “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” -Michelangelo 

172. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” -Henry David Thoreau 

173. “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 

174. “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” -Robert Schumann 

175. “The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.” -Dale Carnegie
176. “A picture is a poem without words.” -Horace 

177. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” -Francis Bacon 

178. “Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” -Jean Cocteau 

179. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” -Twyla Tharp 

180. “Art must take reality by surprise.” -Francoise Sagan
Art Quotes About Vision: 

181. “It’s not what you look at that matters,it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau 

182. “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” — George Bernard Shaw 

183. “The big art is our life.” — Mary Caroline Richards 

184. “The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” — Paul Getty 

185. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” — Pablo Picasso 

186. Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.” — Khalil Gibran 

187. “Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.” — Henri Matisse 

188. “In art as in love,instinct is enough.” — Anatole France 

189. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” — James Whistler 

190. “Art is the objectification of feeling.” — Herman Melville
Art Quotes On The Beauty Of Art: 

191. “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” ― Oscar Wilde 

192. “Art is essentially the affirmation,the blessing,and the deification of existence.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche 

193. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” ― Marc Chagall 

194. “Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” ― Alfred North Whitehead 

195. “The work of art must seize upon you…carry you away.” ― Pierre-Auguste Renoir
196. “Art is like singing.Some do it better than others,but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.” ― Barbara Mason 

197. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” ― Pablo Picasso

198. “Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.” ― Robert Browning 

199. “Illusions are art,for the feeling person,and it is by art that we live,if we do.” ― Elizabeth Bowen 

200. “Art is a guarantee of sanity.” ― Louise Bourgeois 

Art Quotes About The Power Of Art: 

201. In art,the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson 

202. “It is through art,and through art only,that we can realise our perfection.” ― Oscar Wilde 

203. “All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple.Good art speaks truth,indeed is truth,perhaps the only truth.” ― Iris Murdoch 

204. “What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.” ― Rabindranath Tagore 

205. “An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.” ― Paul Cezanne 

206. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.” ― Ansel Adams

207. “A guilty conscience needs to confess.A work of art is a confession.” ― Albert Camus 

208. “In art,to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

209. “The more minimal the art,the more maximum the explanation.” ― Hilton Kramer 

210. “The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.” ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton
More Art Quotes: 

 211. “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 

212. “The more I look at most of the art movements,it’s all occultism, when you get down to it.The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.” — Alan Moore 

213. “The creative act lasts but a brief moment,a lightning instant of give-and-take,just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson 

214. “Art is not a study of positive reality,it is the seeking for ideal truth.” — John Ruskin 

215. “Works of art,in my opinion,are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order,and that is why,though I don’t believe that only art matters,I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.” — E.M.Forster 

216. Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.” — Frank Lloyd Wright 

217. “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.” — Alfred North Whitehead 

218. “The act of creation is a kind of ritual.The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation.Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of ‘life.” — Keith Haring 

219. “In its most limited sense,modern,art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.” — Edward Hopper 

220. “Art consists of limitation.The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” — Gilbert K.Chesterton
As we conclude our journey through these captivating art quotes,may you carry with you the echoes of inspiration and the whispers of creativity.Let these words serve as a guiding light on your artistic path,reminding you of the boundless possibilities that await when you embrace your creative spirit.Whether you're a seasoned artist or an admirer of beauty,remember that art has the power to transcend boundaries and touch the depths of the human soul.Keep creating, keep exploring,and let the magic of art quotes continue to enrich your life.

By: QuotidianVerse Team.

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