Famous Artist Quotes – Insights from Creative Minds

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

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

Creativity takes courage. – Henri Matisse

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. – Michelangelo

Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso

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

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

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Emile Zola

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. – Cesar A. Cruz

Art is not freedom from disciplines but disciplined freedom. – John F. Kennedy

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Every artist grows tired of his work, and longs for refreshment. – Leonardo da Vinci

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

To be an artist is to believe in life. – Henry Moore

Art is not a thing; it is a way. – Elbert Hubbard

Famous Artist Quotes – Insights from Creative Minds part 2

Art is the most beautiful of all lies. – Claude Debussy

Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso

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

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

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Emile Zola

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. – Cesar A. Cruz

Art is not freedom from disciplines but disciplined freedom. – John F. Kennedy

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Every artist grows tired of his work, and longs for refreshment. – Leonardo da Vinci

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

To be an artist is to believe in life. – Henry Moore

Art is not a thing; it is a way. – Elbert Hubbard

Art is the most beautiful of all lies. – Claude Debussy

The purpose of art is to give voice to the voiceless. – Jerzy Grotowski

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Twyla Tharp

Art is not about what you see, but what you make others see. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Art speaks where words are unable to explain. – Mathiole

Art is the lie that reveals the truth. – Jonathon Keats

Art is the purest expression of the human soul. – Wang Guangyi

Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. – Bertolt Brecht

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

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. – Leonardo da Vinci

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

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. – Rene Magritte

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. – Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is to make the invisible visible. – Paul Klee