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Everyone of us needs some inspiration from time to time. Listening to the inspiring words of great artists is a fantastic way to get your lost creativity back. That’s the power of art quotes! Here are 110 quotes about artistic inspiration for you – from quotes on art and creativity, quotes about the importance of the arts, over to painting quotes, female artist quotes, and short motivational quotes. Have a look and get inspired!
inspirational quotes on creativity and art
22 Quotes about artistic Inspiration to boost your creativity
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
Andy Warhol
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc Chagall
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.
Neil Gaiman
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
Eric Gill
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
Neil Gaiman
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.
Mark Rothko
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron
There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Cooley
An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success.
Henri Matisse
In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece.
Kai Greene
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
Art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
Rainbow Rowell
When you do things for their own sake, that’s when you create your best work. That’s when it’s art.
Naval Ravikant
Make art that makes you happy. Make art that makes you better. Make art that makes you money. Make art that makes a difference.
Sahil Lavingia
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
quotes about the importance of the arts
22 quotes about artistic inspiration that show the power of art
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Cecil B. DeMille
To be an artist is to believe in life.
Henry Moore
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.
John Mason
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc Chagall
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cézanne
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.
J. M. W. Turner
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
Joan Miro
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
Art should be something that liberates your soul.
Keith Haring
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
Emile Zola
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.
Ricky Gervais
Art is my life and my life is art.
Yoko Ono
It’s better to create something that others criticize than to create nothing and criticize others.
Ricky Gervais
female artist quotes
22 quotes about artistic inspiration from great female artists
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
Louise Bourgeois
There are no rules to creativity.
Laura Jaworski
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Helen Frankenthaler
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Donatella Versace
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
Louise Bourgeois
Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.
MaryAnn F. Kohl
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anaïs Nin
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Maria Montessori
I paint flowers so they will not die.
How you draw is a reflection of how you feel about the world. You're not capturing it, you're interpreting it.
Juliette Aristides
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.
Susan Sontag
If we go for the easy way, we never change.
Marina Abramović
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
Inhale possibility, exhale creativity.
Laura Jaworski
Art must be life – it must belong to everybody.
Marina Abramović
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Painting quotes
22 quotes about artistic inspiration for and from painters
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Freddie Mercury
While drawing I discover what I really want to say.
Dario Fo
I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.
Bob Ross
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
Dario Fo
Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.
Millard Sheets
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Drawing is not what one sees, but what one can make others see.
Edgar Degas
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
If you hear a voice within you saying, ”You are not a painter,” then by all means paint... and that voice will be silenced.
Drawing is vision on paper.
Andrew Loomis
I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.
Robert Redford
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Leonardo da Vinci
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan Miro
Short motivational quotes
22 short quotes about artistic inspiration because brevity is the soul of wit
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
Art is to look at not to criticize.
Edgar Allen Poe
To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.
Joan Miro
The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
Pablo Picasso
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
No artist tolerates reality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is too short to remain unnoticed.
Salvador Dalí
What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.
Claude Monet
Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
Louise Bourgeois
Don’t think about making art...
Andy Warhol
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Yoko Ono
Art is not a thing, it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
It is absurd to look for perfection.
Camille Pissarro
Everything starts from a dot.
Wassily Kandinsky
The more I work, the more I want to work.
Joan Miro
Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
Salvador Dalí
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent van Gogh
To create one’s own world takes courage.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Art is coming face to face with yourself.
Jackson Pollock
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