ART QUOTATIONS

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. - Pablo Picasso

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.  - Kurt Vonnegut

A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man that sells what he paints. - Pablo Picasso

Bad artists copy. Great artists steal. - Pablo Picasso

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci


First I saw the mountains in the painting; then I saw the painting in the mountains. – Chinese Proverb

Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. - John F. Kennedy

Bad artists always admire each others work. - Oscar Wilde

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.  - Thomas Merton

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. - Henri Matisse.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. - Paul Klee

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks. - Mark Rothko

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

Form is the outer expression of inner meaning. - Wassily Kandinsky

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! -
Christian Cardell Corbet

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Vincent van Gogh

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas.

Looking is a gift, but seeing is a power. - Jeff Berner

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pierce

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. - Claude Monet

Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. - Albrecht Durer

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. - Lyndon B. Johnson.

Art teaches nothing except the significance of life. - Henry Miller