Quotes on Inspirational Artist

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

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

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.