“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Vincent van Gogh
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.
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”Leonardo da Vinci
PaintingUniverse
“Genius is eternal patience.”
Michelangelo
GeniusPatience
“Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.”
Rembrandt
PracticeLearning
“What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.”
Albrecht Dürer
BeautyMystery
“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
Eugène Delacroix
PerfectionFocus
“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
Eugène Delacroix
GeniusInspiration
“Light is therefore colour.”
J. M. W. Turner
LightColour
“There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life.”
John Constable
BeautyPerspective
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.”
William Blake
OriginalityFreedom
“Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
BeautyJoy
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
BeautyEndurance
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Edgar Degas
PaintingMastery
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
Camille Pissarro
BeautyPerspective
“I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
Henri Matisse
PaintingPerception
“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity.”
Henri Matisse
SerenityBalance
“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
Paul Cézanne
ObservationRevolution
“Whoever wants to know something about me should look carefully at my pictures.”
Gustav Klimt
Self ExpressionPainting
“I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.”
Edvard Munch
MemoryPainting
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
Marc Chagall
HeartCreativity
“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.”
Marc Chagall
“I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
Joan Miró
ColourPoetry
“Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
René Magritte
MysteryPerception
“Every work of art is the child of its age.”
Wassily Kandinsky
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
Piet Mondrian
HumilityArtists