“Colour has taken possession of me.”
Paul Klee
ColourPassion
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.
“With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.”
Amedeo Modigliani
Self ReflectionVision
“To create one's own world takes courage.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
CourageCreativity
“I never paint dreams. I paint my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo
RealitySelf Expression
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
Salvador Dalí
AmbitionIntelligence
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.”
Andy Warhol
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.”
Andy Warhol
FameFamous Lines
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”
Keith Haring
“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”
Mark Rothko
ExperiencePainting
“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
Jackson Pollock
Creative ProcessPainting
“Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.”
Robert Henri
AuthenticityPainting
“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
Robert Henri
Creative ProcessFlow
“Art is a guaranty of sanity.”
Louise Bourgeois
WellbeingShort Quotes
“Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos.”Yayoi Kusama
UniversePerspective
“Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential.”
Ai Weiwei
CreativityChange
“The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music.”Rabindranath Tagore
ColourMusic
“Of all arts, the best is painting, which grants righteousness, wealth, pleasure and liberation.”
Vishnudharmottara Purana
Indian ArtPainting
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”Oscar Wilde
ArtistsImagination
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”Oscar Wilde
IndividualityArt
“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”
Leo Tolstoy
EmotionPurpose
“Beauty will save the world.”Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To love beauty is to see light.”
Victor Hugo
BeautyLight
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.”
Charles Baudelaire
GeniusChildhood
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”
Émile Zola
PassionLife
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”George Bernard Shaw
SoulReflection