Selected Artist’s Quotes
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
__Edgar Degas
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
__Johnathon Swift
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
__Edgar Degas
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
__Henry David Thoreau
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
__Scott Adams
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
__Aristotle
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
__Constantin Stanislavski
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
__Walt Whitman
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
__Leonardo da Vinci
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
__Eugene Delacroix
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
__Friedrich Nietzsche
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
__Jean Cocteau
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
__Pablo Picasso
I’d rather view a spectacular image of an ordinary scene than an ordinary image of a spectacular scene.
__Jim Coe
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
__Jackson Pollock
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
__Isaac Bashevis Singer
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
__Claude Monet
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
__James Whistler
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
__Twyla Tharp
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
__Carl Rogers
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
__Dorothea Lange
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
__Albert Einstein
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
__Anatole France
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
__Pablo Picasso
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
__Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
__Henri Matisse
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
__Ansel Adams
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
__Henri Matisse
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
__Maynard James Keenan
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
__Ansel Adams
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
__Frank Zappa
Insight is the first condition of Art.
__George Henry Lewes
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
__Claude Debussy
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
__Orson Welles
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
__Rabindranath Tagore
