Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
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.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
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