The below inspirational art quotes tell you that art and love are both the same thing. Art is imagination and anything you can imagine can become reality. It helps you find yourself. The art quotes can help you to awaken the artist in you. Apart from these art quotes, you can read other motivational quotes on feeling alone, attraction, and uplifting quotes.
Here is a collection of inspirational art quotes to inspire you.
1. “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
2. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ― Clive Barker
3. “Art and love are the same things: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ― Chuck Klosterman
4. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ― Thomas Merton
5. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ― Pablo Picasso
6. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso
7. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso
8. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
9. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
10. “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
11. “Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” ― Woody Allen
12. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
13. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” ― Edgar Degas
14. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” ― Oscar Wilde
15. “Creativity takes courage.” ― Henri Matisse
16. “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” ― Oscar Wilde
17. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso
18. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ― Pablo Picasso
19. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ― Pablo Picasso
20. “The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” ― Lester Bangs
21. “The human body is the best work of art.” ― Jess C. Scott
22. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
23. “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.” ― Pablo Picasso
24. “We have art in order not to die of the truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
25. “A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.” ― Dylan Thomas
26. “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
27. “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
28. “Art is the proper task of life.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
29. “Art is to console those who are broken by life.” ― Vincent van Gogh
30. “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” ― Flannery O’Connor
31. “Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson
32. “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” ― G.K. Chesterton
33. “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.” ― Alice Walker
34. “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
35. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ― Aristotle
36. “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” ― George Bernard Shaw
37. “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” ― Ansel Adams
38. “Art is what you can get away with.” ― Andy Warhol
39. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” ― Cesar A. Cruz
40. “Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.” ― Don Miguel Ruiz
41. “I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
42. “Imagination governs the world.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
43. “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.” ― Susan Sontag
44. “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” ― Danny Kaye
45. “Love the art in yourself, and not yourself in art.” ― Constantin Stanislavski
46. “Music is an outburst of the soul.” ― Frederick Delius
47. “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” ― Walt Whitman
48. “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given to us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” ― Pablo Picasso
49. “A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” ― Vladimir Nabokov
50. “Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.” ― Frank Zappa
51. “Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mother’s face.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
52. “Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.” ― Donald Woods Winnicott
53. “God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.” ― Pablo Picasso
54. “If one loves Art at all, one must love it beyond all other things in the world.” ― Oscar Wilde
55. “It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.” ― John Irving
56. “Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.” ― Freddie Mercury
57. “Self-motivation is an art, one should practice every now and then!” ― Somya Kedia
58. “There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do.” ― William A. Pasmore
59. “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward, you can remove all traces of reality.” ― Pablo Picasso
60. “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” ― George Bernard Shaw
61. “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.” ― Andy Warhol
62. “An idea is a salvation by imagination.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright
63. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” ― Oscar Wilde
64. “Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.” ― Ani DiFranco
65. “Creativity is an act of defiance.” ― Twyla Tharp
66. “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
67. “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” ― Pablo Casals
68. “The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.” ― Kate Chopin
69. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” ― Henry David Thoreau
70. “Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
71. “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” ― Jonathan Swift
72. “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” ― Pablo Picasso
73. “A picture is a poem without words.” ― Horace
74. “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” ― Elbert Hubbard
75. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ― Scott Adams
76. “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
77. “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
78. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” ― Stella Adler
79. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” ― Pablo Picasso
80. “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” ― Michelangelo
81. “When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.” ― Edward Steichen
82. “Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.” ― Albert Camus
83. “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” ― Winston Churchill
84. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” ― Ansel Adams
85. “Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” ― Jean Cocteau
86. “Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” ― Paul Gauguin
87. “Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.” ― Malcolm de Chazal
88. “Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” ― John Ruskin
89. “Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.” ― Harry S Truman
90. “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
91. “Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” ― Thomas Wolfe
92. “Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.” ― Pierre Bonnard
93. “Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.” ― Robert Quillen
94. “I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.” ― Roy Lichtenstein
95. “If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” ― Honore de Balzac
96. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” ― Francis Bacon
97. “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” ― Langston Hughes
98. “Art consists of limitations. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” ― Gilbert K. Chesterton
99. “Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” ― Leo Tolstoy
100. “Art resides in the quality of doing, the process is not magic.” ― Charles Eames
101. “Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” ― Stephen Sondheim
102. “Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” ― Salvador Dali
103. “Painting and writing are solitary arts.” ― Conrad Hall
104. “Painting is by nature a luminous language.” ― Robert Delaunay
105. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” ― Dorothea Lange
106. “The artist’s vocation is to send light into the human heart.” ― George Sand
107. “The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.” ― Dale Carnegie
108. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
109. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” ― James Whistler
110. “Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.” ― Andre Gide
111. “Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.” ― Egon Schiele
112. “Art is a harmony parallel with nature.” ― Paul Cezanne
113. “Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” ― Frank Zappa
114. “Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” ― Claude Debussy
115. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” ― Twyla Tharp
116. “Art must take reality by surprise.” ― Francoise Sagan
117. “If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.” ― Arne Jacobsen
118. “Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” ― Jackson Pollock
119. “Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.” ― Balthus
120. “The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” ― Abraham Lincoln
121. “The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” ― Jerzy Kosinski
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