Inspirational Art Quotes - Page 3

• you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

  Stephen King

  Positive, Fear, Cheer Up

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Life, Strength

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Bad Ass

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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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• 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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• I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 13, 2012

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• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Philosophical, Reality

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Carpe Diem, Thinking

  In John Golding Cubism (1959) p. 60

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• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Dust, Soul

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• You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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• Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

  Stella Adler

  Life, Music, Crush

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Paint, Artist

  Jackson Pollock, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1980). “Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting”, Icon

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• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Dance, Running

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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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• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Ends, Artist

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• Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

  Andre Gide

  Spiritual, Art, Creative Collaboration

  "The Millionaire Rig Veda" by Timothy James Brearton, (p. 40), 2012.

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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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• Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Believe, Creativity

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Art, Work

  Charles Baudelaire (1991). “The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems”, Boa Editions

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• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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