“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso
“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” – Paul Cezanne
“The earth has music for those who listen.” – George Santayana
“Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line.” – Unknown
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – Cesar A. Cruz
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley
“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” – Marc Chagall
“Art speaks where words are unable to explain.” – Mathiole
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.” – André Gide
“Art is the journey of a free soul.” – Alev Oguz
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” – Alberto Giacometti
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” – Oscar Wilde
“Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.” – Anni Albers
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” – Pablo Picasso
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A picture is a poem without words.” – Horace
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” – Michelangelo
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” – Michelangelo
“Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” – John F. Kennedy
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
“Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.” – Duane Hanson
“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.” – Eric Gill
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.” – Marc Chagall
“An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a constant state of wonder.” – Marc Jacobs
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
“The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole.” – Louise Bourgeois