Inspirational Art Quotes

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A picture is a poem without words” – Horace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse

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

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

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