QUOTES ON ARTS AND CREATIVITY

75 QUOTES ON ARTS AND CREATIVITY

I uses a lot of quotes in my works, and over the years I have collected a ton of them about arts and creativity. It is amazing to realize the various artists who unveiled their perceptions towards what art is, and what it isn't.

Always remember this: "Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem." by Lindsay Anderson

1. "Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up." _Pablo Picasso
2. "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." _Vincent Van Gogh
3. "Creativity takes courage." _Henri Matisse
4. "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is seen rather than seen." _Leonardo da Vince
5. "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 Warhold
6. "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." _Pablo Picasso
7. "Every artist was first an amateur." Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. "Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." _Claude Monet
9. "Art is a line around your thoughts." _Gustav Klimt
10. "Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely." _Edward Albee
11. "A man paints with his brain, not his hands." _Michelangelo
12. "Art is not a thing, it is way." _Elbert Hubbard
13. "I would rather die of passion than boredom." _Vincent Van Gogh
14. "Art is not what you see, but what you make people to see." _Edgar Degas
15. "I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men." _Albrecht Durer
16. "In art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished." _Mary Cassatt
17. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paint his own nature into his pictures." _Henry Ward Beecher
18. "I invent nothing, I rediscover." _Auguste Rodin
19. "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." _Jean-Jacques Rousseau
20. "The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable." _Robert Henri
21. "I dream of painting and then I paint my dream." _Vincent Van Gogh
22. "The artist's world is limitless. it can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is Always on his doorstep. _Paul Strand
23. "Art is never finished, only abandoned." _Leonardo Da Vinci
24. "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." _Pablo Picasso
25. "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." _Andy Warhol
26. "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a life time to paint like a child." _Pablo Picasso
27. "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
28. "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." _Dr. Seuss
29. "A work of art which isn't based on feeling is not art at all." _Paul Cezanne.
30. "Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it." _Ai Weiwei
31. "Creativity is contagious, pass it on." _Albert Einstein
32. "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. it seemed obvious to them after a while." _Steve Jobs
33. "Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it." _Salvador Dali
34. "Creativity is a drug I cannot live without." _Cecil B. Demille
35. "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?" _George Bernard Shaw
36. "Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity." _Maya Angelou
37. "You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." _Jack London
38. "Originality is nothing but judicious imitation." _Voltaire
39. "Creativity is more than just being different. Anyone can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." _Charles Mingus
40. "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
41. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." _Francis Bacon
42. "The main things is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live." _Auguste Rodin
43. "To be an artist is to believe in life." _Henry Moore
44. "It is important to express oneself provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience." _Berthe Morisot
45. "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." _Aristotle
46. "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." _Pablo Picasso
47. "Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you are passionate about something, then you are more willing to take risks." _Yo-Yo Ma
48. "Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous". Bill Moyers
49. "Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm." _Earl Nightingale
50. "An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision." _James McNeil Whistler
51. "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." _Vincent Van Gogh
52. "Inspiration does not exist but it must find you working." _Pablo Picasso
53. "If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing." _Marc Chagall
54. "A good artist has less time than ideas." _Martin Kippenberger
55. "I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment." _David Rockefeller
56. "The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can." _Neil Gaiman
57. "Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas." Donatella Versace
58. "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." _Leonardo da Vince
59. If people knew how hard I work I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." _Michelangelo
60. "Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." _Edvard Munch
61. "Painting is a means of self-enlightenment." _John Olsen
62. "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." _Twyla Tharp
63. "In Art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine." _Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. "Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing." _Georgia O'Keeffe
65. "I am seeking. I am striving. I am in with all my heart." Vincent Van Gogh
66. "If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." _Edward Hopper
67.  "They always say time change things, but you actually have to change them yourself." _Andy Warhol
68. "Great art picks up where nature ends." _Marc Chagall
69. "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." _Salvador Dali
70. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one to keep." _Scott Adams
71. "Art is the stored honey of the human soul." _Theodore Dreiser
72. "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." _EdgarDegas
73. "The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel." _Piet Mondrian
74. "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." _Charles Horton Cooley
75. "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creativity maladjusted." _Martin Luther King Junior

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