77 Art Quotes

The Power of Art

1. «Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.» – Thomas Merton
2. «Every artist was first an amateur.» – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. «Creativity takes courage.» – Henri Matisse
4. «The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.» – Pablo Picasso
5. «Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.» – Edgar Degas

Creativity & Inspiration

6. «You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.» – Maya Angelou
7. «Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.» – Cesar Cruz
8. «The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.» – Leonardo da Vinci
9. «Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.» – Scott Adams
10. «The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.» – Neil Gaiman

Becoming an Artist

11. «An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.» – James Whistler
12. «Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.» – Ray Bradbury
13. «Art is the most intense mode of individualism the world has known.» – Oscar Wilde
14. «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
15. «Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.» – Arthur Ashe

The Process of Creating Art

16. «To create one’s own world takes courage.» – Georgia O’Keeffe
17. «Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.» – Pablo Picasso
18. «Art is not a thing; it is a way.» – Elbert Hubbard
19. «The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.» – Michelangelo
20. «Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.» – Vincent van Gogh