Inspirational Art Quotes

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas

Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso

Creativity takes courage. – Henri Matisse

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. – Cesar A. Cruz

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

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

Art is not a thing; it is a way. – Elbert Hubbard

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde

Art is the most beautiful deception. – Claude Debussy

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. – Dale Carnegie

Art is not freedom from discipline but disciplined freedom. – John F. Kennedy

Art is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

Art is the lie that enables us to see the truth. – Jean Cocteau

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

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will. – Anselm Kiefer

Inspirational Art Quotes part 2

Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall

Art is the highest form of hope. – Gerhard Richter

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better. – André Gide

Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. – Banksy

Art should make you feel less alone in the world. – Jonathan Safran Foer

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. – René Magritte

Art teaches nothing except the significance of life. – Henry Miller

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. – Paul Klee

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Émile Zola

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Mary Cassatt

Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. – Bertolt Brecht

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

Art should astonish, transfigure, make one feel alive. – Michael Tippett

Art is the highest form of hope. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society. – John F. Kennedy

Art is a result of inspiration, not imitation. – Anonymous

Art is not limited to what you see, but to what it makes you feel. – Anonymous

Every artist was once an amateur. – Anonymous

Art is the language of the soul. – Anonymous

Art is a journey of self-discovery. – Anonymous

Art is the bridge between imagination and reality. – Anonymous

Art speaks when words are unable to explain. – Anonymous

Art is the rhythm of life made visible. – Anonymous

Art is the soul’s way of telling the universe, ‘I exist.’ – Anonymous

Art is the key to unlock the hidden depths of our emotions. – Anonymous