Best Art And Artists Quotes

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.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

Art feeds off art…and artists feed off artists.

Art is anything you can get away with.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we’ve seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.