Inspirational Art Quotes

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

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

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.” – George Sand

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

“Art is the triumph over chaos.” – John Cheever

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

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

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” – Albert Einstein

“Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse

“Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything you are willing to practice, you can do.” – Bob Ross.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

“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

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.” – Pablo Picasso

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

“A picture is a poem without words” – Horace

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” – Pablo Picasso

“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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