Quotes on Inspiring Art

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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.

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.

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

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

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Great art picks up where nature ends.