“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“Art knows no boundaries…. Expressive art; Timeless piece; Artistic representation of feelings without imitations built from creative interpretations; however you want to call it… For …
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, …
“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it’s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. …
“The secret of art is love.” – Antoine Bourdelle
“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying …
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist” – Eric Gill
“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed …
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” – …
“The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.” – Willa Sibert Cather
“The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.” – Kahlil Gibran
“The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.” – Henry Mille
“A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.” – Dimitri Shostakovich
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.” – Wassily Kandinsky
“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and …
“The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?” – Pablo Picasso
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary” – Pablo Picasso
“Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.” – Aristotle
“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, …
“All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” – Oscar Wilde
“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim” – Oscar Wilde
“Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.” – Bente Borsum
“The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has” – Michelangelo
“Authors and actors and artists and such – Never know nothing, and never know much” – Dorothy Parker
“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out …
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes …
“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of …
“As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes – and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done” – Pablo …
“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, …
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde
“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde
“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do …
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” – Charles Bukowski