“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
Pablo Picasso
Childlike WonderMastery
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.
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent van Gogh
DedicationPassion
“Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
Vincent van Gogh
IndividualityCreativity
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”Leonardo da Vinci
UnderstandingJoy
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”
Michelangelo
Hard WorkMastery
“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”
Paul Gauguin
OriginalityRevolution
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
Paul Cézanne
NaturePainting
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
Claude Monet
FreedomPainting
“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
Claude Monet
ColourPassion
“An artist must never be a prisoner of himself.”
Henri Matisse
FreedomArtists
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
Auguste Rodin
“Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.”
Wassily Kandinsky
ColourSoul
“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”
Joan Miró
PassionDiscipline
“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
Salvador Dalí
InspirationArtists
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Frida Kahlo
StrengthResilience
“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
FlowersBeauty
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
Andy Warhol
ArtistsWit
“Art lives through the imaginations of the people who are seeing it.”
Keith Haring
ImaginationAudience
“I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art.”Yayoi Kusama
HealingCreativity
“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”
David Hockney
BeautyArtists
“Everyone is an artist.”
Joseph Beuys
CreativityShort Quotes
“I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.”
Norman Rockwell
ObservationEveryday Life
“If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.”
Grandma Moses
FunnyLate Bloomers
“There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”
Bob Ross
“There is painting in poetry, and poetry in painting.”
Su Shi
PaintingPoetry