20 Most Art Quotes By Famous People | Creative Quotes

Creative Quotes By Famous People

Creative Quotes By Famous People

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange

A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Paul Klee

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

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

Nature, Artist, Paints I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

One eye sees, the other feels.
Paul Klee

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy