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.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
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