Here are 150 of the best art quotes I could find. What’s my goal? To inspire you to keep creating, building and bringing out your inner artist. You’ll discover sayings by famous artists like Picasso, da Vinci, van Gogh, Monet, and more. Enjoy!

• The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense. Pablo Picasso
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  Bring your humanity to your art. Bring your art to humanity. Maxime Lagacé
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  Art deteriorates when it is done for the audience. James Pierce
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  In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Coco Chanel
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  An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Charles CooleyThe great artist is the simplifier. Vincent van Gogh
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  I had so much fire in me and so many plans. Claude Monet
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  The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to. Frida Kahlo
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  Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. Jackson Pollock
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  Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas MertonTo draw you must close your eyes and sing. Pablo Picasso
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  Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher
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  Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art. Susan Sontag
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  In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better. Ernest Hemingway
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  In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece. Kai GreeneThe world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. Neil Gaiman
• Let’s get a little crazy here. Bob Ross
• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso
• We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. John F. Kennedy
• I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. Elijah Wood
• You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life. Joan Miro
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  Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. Georges Braque
• If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is. Bob Ross
• An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success. Henri Matisse
• I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Frida KahloCreativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
• It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. Vincent van Gogh
• The power of nature is such that it’s what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship. Rick Rubin
• Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci
• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. Robert Hughes
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  Tell your own story, and you will be interesting. Louise Bourgeois
• All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. James Baldwin
• Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions. Alfred Hitchcock
• Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy. Albert Einstein
• You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life. Salvador Dalí
• I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. Georgia O’Keeffe
• To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence. Louise Bourgeois
• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint. Keith Haring
• If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola
• Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it. Leon Trotsky
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  Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Edward de Bono
• In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. E. M. Forster
• I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. Yayoi Kusama
• A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions. Rembrandt
• Art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. Rainbow Rowell
• No one cares until you’re doing it for yourself. Jack Butcher (Source)
• The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. Joan Miro
• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas
• I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Dr. SeussArt is never finished, only abandoned. Leonardo da Vinci
• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Leonardo da Vinci
• Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. Agnes Martin
• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. Pablo Picasso
• Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso
• I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent van Gogh
• I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. Madonna
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  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein
• I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent van Gogh
• The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. David BowieIf you hear a voice within you saying, ”You are not a painter,” then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced. Vincent van Gogh
• Art is my life and my life is art. Yoko Ono
• Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you. Oscar Wilde
• A picture is a poem without words. Horace
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  We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents. Bob Ross
• Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation it is a corpse. Winston Churchill
• I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people. Bob Ross
• You don’t take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams
• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dalí
• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo
• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche
• I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Frida Kahlo
• Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King JrBeauty will save the world. Dosteovsky
• Painter, paint! Salvador Dalí
• Art must destroy violence, only it can do it. Leo Tolstoy
• Art should tell what the system does not. @AmuseChimp
• Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way. Albert Einstein
• Art is to look at not to criticize. Edgar Allen Poe
• Art is a way of recognizing oneself. Louise Bourgeois
• If you find yourself broken then make art with the pieces. Chris Ruden (Source)
• Personality is everything in art and poetry. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin
• Art = A mad search for individualism. Paul Gauguin
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  Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde
• You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. Henri Matisse
• Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom. Leonardo da Vinci
• Painting is silent poetry. Plutarch
• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. Yoko Ono
• Every good painter paints what he is. Jackson Pollock
• A true masterpiece does not tell everything. Albert Camus
• Intensity is all that matters in painting. John Piper
• To be an artist is to believe in life. Henry Moore
• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso
• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. Pablo Picasso
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  Art is coming face to face with yourself. Jackson Pollock
• The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. Leonardo da Vinci
• The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of. Leonardo da Vinci
• To create one’s own world takes courage. Georgia O’Keeffe
• I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. Vincent van Gogh
• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso
• It is absurd to look for perfection. Camille Pissarro
• Knowing how to look is a way of inventing. Salvador Dalí
• I’m in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. Claude Monet
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  Art must be life — it must belong to everybody. Marina Abramović
• To create, one must first question everything. Eileen Gray
• Everything starts from a dot. Wassily Kandinsky
• To gain freedom is to gain simplicity. Joan Miro
• The more I work, the more I want to work. Joan Miro
• I work like a gardener. Joan Miro
• At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy. Federico Garcia Lorca