Top 50+ Famous Artist Quotes
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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. – James Whistler
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. – Francis Bacon
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas
Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies. – Anish Kapoor
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Andy Warhol
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. – Paul Valery
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. – Charles Bukowski
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John W. Gardner
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| Awesome Artist Quotes |
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Emile Zola
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. – Pablo Picasso
An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone. – Neel Burton
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. – Robert Smithson
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. – Martha Graham
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide
The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key. – Luhraw
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| Popular Artist Quotes |
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. – Leonardo da Vinci
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. – Christian Nestell Bovee
The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist. – Ananda Coomaraswamy
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. – Oscar Wilde
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art the thing you cannot explain. – Georges Braque
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. – Philip Guston
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To be an artist is to believe in life. – Henry Moore
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. – Edvard Munch
Creativity is discontent translated into arts. – Eric Hoffer
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid. – Terry Pratchett
The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. – Criss Jami
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. – George Edward Moore
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| Amazing Artist Quotes |
Everyone is artist in this world, They should be judged by their arts not by face. – By Nitin Verma
The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host. – Gerard de Marigny
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. – Pablo Picasso
Creativity takes courage. – Henri Matisse
An artist cannot fail, It is a success to be one. – Charles Horton Cooley
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Pablo Picasso
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Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. – Eckhart Tolle
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. – Piet Mondrian
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. – Frida Kahlo
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. – Charles Horton Cooley
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Eugene Delacroix
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change. – William S. Burroughs