“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
Edgar Degas
VisionPerspective
Art Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ART
Art Quotes
Read 200 of the best art quotes from Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rabindranath Tagore and more on creativity and the artist's life.
“Creativity takes courage.”
Henri Matisse
CreativityCourage
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
Henri Matisse
PerspectiveBeauty
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
Claude Monet
LoveAppreciation
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
Paul Cézanne
EmotionArt
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin
ImaginationVision
“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky
ColourSoul
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
Paul Klee
VisionMeaning
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
Paul Klee
DrawingWit
“Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.”
Salvador Dalí
PerfectionWit
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
Frida Kahlo
FlowersPainting
“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
ColourExpression
“Art is anything you can get away with.”
Marshall McLuhan
WitArt
“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
ProductivityCreativity
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Jackson Pollock
Self DiscoveryPainting
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
Edward Hopper
PaintingExpression
“The artist is the confidant of nature.”
Auguste Rodin
NatureArtists
“The artist is the lover of Nature, therefore he is her slave and her master.”Rabindranath Tagore
NatureArtists
“I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque. India belongs only to me.”
Amrita Sher-Gil
Indian ArtIdentity
“The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.”
Ananda Coomaraswamy
CreativityEveryone
“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
Bob Ross
MistakesPositivity
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Scott Adams
MistakesCreativity
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
Twyla Tharp
EscapeImagination
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”
Kahlil Gibran
MysteryArt
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
John Ruskin
CraftHeart