Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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