Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

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

Creativity takes courage.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.

A picture is a poem without words.

Art is an explosion of the eternal struggle between light and dark, chaos and order, sense and insanity.

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

To create one’s own world takes courage.

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The earth without art is just ‘eh’.

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

There is no must in art because art is free.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Every good painter paints what he is.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Art provokes thought, encourages the senses, and showcases the full spectrum of human emotion.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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

A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Art is not a thing it is a way.

When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache and longing.

Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art and love are the same thing It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

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

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

All art is autobiographical the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Art is the journey of a free soul.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art speaks where words are unable to explain.

Art washes away the dust of daily life.

Creativity takes courage.

Art speaks where words fail.

Painting is silent poetry.

Every canvas is a journey.

Art knows no boundaries.

Art is the lie that reveals truth.

Simplicity is ultimate sophistication.

The earth without art is just ‘eh’.

Art is freedom being yourself.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Great art lives where comfort ends.

Art is an explosion of life.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Without art, the Earth is just ‘eh’.

Embrace the beauty of silence in art.

We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

Imagination rules the world of art.

Create with the heart build with the mind.

Art transforms the commonplace into the extraordinary.

Art is therapy for the soul.

Breathe life into your creations.

Make your art your voice.

Colors speak louder than words.

Art is the journey of a free soul.

Mind filled with art has no fear.

Turn your wounds into wisdom in art.

Art doesn’t have to match the couch.

Art is the only truth.

Life without brushstrokes is dull.

Art nourishes the roots of culture.

To create is to live twice.

Art should disturb the comfortable.

Originality is the essence of true art.

Every brush stroke tells a story.

Art bridges the gap between souls.

Be fearless in the pursuit of art.

Art can change the world.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic.

Good art inspires great art changes us.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Emotion is the soul of art.

Art is the echo of imagination.

Capture life in its purest form.

Art is a universal language of emotion.

Art doesn’t need translation.

Art is shared dreams.

Dreams manifest in artist’s hands.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Imagine boldly, create bravely.

A canvas is a world of possibility.

Art challenges the norm, comforts the troubled.

Art is the color of life.

Be your own muse in art.

Art is the pulse of life.

Dare to defy in your art.

Art is the rhythm of creativity.

Artists tell untold tales.

Art connects hearts across time.

A splash of art brightens any day.

Let your colors shine through.

Art is a sanctuary for the mind.

A brushstroke can speak volumes.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

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

A picture is a poem without words.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

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

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

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

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

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

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.