Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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