50 Art Quotes That Will Inspire You to Art

👀 Art is either revolution or plagiarism. Paul Gauguin

👀 The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense. Pablo Picasso

👀 Life is creation – self and circumstances, the raw material. Dorothy Richardson

👀 An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Charles Horton Cooley

👀 Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Oscar Wilde

👀 Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. Georges Braque

👀 You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life. Joan Miro

👀 If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is. Bob Ross

👀 An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success. Henri Matisse

👀 Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci Click to tweet

👀 Tell your own story, and you will be interesting. Louise Bourgeois Click to tweet

👀 I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Frida Kahlo

👀 Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams Click to tweet

👀 It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. Vincent van Gogh

👀 The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. Robert Hughes


👀 All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. James Baldwin

👀 Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions. Alfred Hitchcock

👀 Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy. Albert Einstein

👀 You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life. Salvador Dalí

👀 I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. Georgia O’Keeffe

👀 Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art. Susan Sontag

👀 I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. Elijah Wood

👀 In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece. Kai Greene

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

👀 To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence. Louise Bourgeois

👀 Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher

👀 The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint. Keith Haring Click to tweet

👀 The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. Steven Pressfield (The War Of Art)

👀 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. Emile Zola

👀 Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it. Leon Trotsky

👀 The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. Jerzy Kosinski

👀 In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. E. M. Forster

👀 I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. Yayoi Kusama

👀 A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions. Rembrandt

👀 Art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. Rainbow Rowell

👀 An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s. J. D. Salinger

👀 The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. Joan Miro

👀 Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Edward de Bono

👀 Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas

👀 A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. Christian Dior

👀 Art speaks where words are unable to explain. Unknown (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)

👀 I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Dr. Seuss (This is one of my favorite quote. Leave a reply here and let me know what’s yours!)

👀 To draw you must close your eyes and sing. Pablo Picasso Click to tweet

👀 Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. Jackson Pollock Click to tweet

👀 I had so much fire in me and so many plans. Claude Monet Click to tweet

👀 I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent van Gogh

👀 I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent Van Gogh

👀 If you hear a voice within you saying, ”You are not a painter,” then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced. Vincent van Gogh

👀 Art is my life and my life is art. Yoko Ono

👀 We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. John F. Kennedy