Favorite Artist Quotes

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Love, Inspirational, Life

Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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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

Inspiring, Art, Flower

Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Life, Motivational, Music

"LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

Art, Fools Day, Finding Yourself

Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

Art, Creative, Would Be

Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated

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Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Art, Inspiration

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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Edgar Degas

Beauty, Dance, Art

"The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Miles Davis

Life, Music, Beautiful

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Great art picks up where nature ends.

Marc Chagall

Art, Ends, Artist

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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley

Art, Failure, Creative

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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Pablo Picasso

Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

Life, Art, Expression

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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Creativity, Drawing

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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Robert Schumann

Inspiring, Art, Men

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

Happiness, Art, Sunshine

Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

Art, War, People

Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

Inspirational, Life, Art

"The Middle Years" (1893)

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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Hands, Doe

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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Edgar Degas

Art, Experience, Painting

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes

Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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