Inspiring Quotes by Artists

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon.

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso.

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent van Gogh.

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse.

“I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent Willem van Gogh.

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso.

“Every artist was once an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau.

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Émile Zola.

“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.” – Magdalena Abakanowicz.

“I paint not the things I see but the feelings they evoke in me.” – Odilon Redon.

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” – Pablo Picasso.

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

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams.

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” – Vincent van Gogh.

“I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo.

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” – Oscar Wilde.

“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” – Alberto Giacometti.

“Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Pablo Picasso.

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” – René Magritte.