Art Quotes To Help Motivate You
Hello cozy artists,
In this blog, I wanted to share some inspiring art quotes that will hopefully motivate you to keep going!
As I work at my drawings, day after day, what seemed unattainable before is now gradually becoming possible. Slowly, I'm learning to observe and measure. I don't stand quite so helpless before nature any longer. ― Vincent van Gogh in ’Lust for Life’
Art is a line around your thoughts. ― Gustav Klimt
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. ― Paul Cezanne
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. ― Salvador Dali
Every artist was first an amateur. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do. ― Bob Ross
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ― Al Hirschfeld
It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create. ― J. M. W. Turner
The Achilles heel of an artist lies in the hope that his art is good. ― Kapil Gupta
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ― Aristotle
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ― Pablo Picasso
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. ― Leo Tolstoy
You have a million excuses. Write anyway. ― Carrie Kei Heim
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will. ― Anselm Kiefer
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art. ― Neil Gaiman
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery. It wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. ― Michelangelo
For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in. ― Brian Froud
I paint flowers so they will not die. ― Frida Kahlo
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ― Pablo Picasso
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. ― Eric Gill
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. -Michelangelo
Practice what you know and it will help you to make clear what you do not know. ― Rembrandt
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye. ― Kimon Nicolaides
If 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
Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things landscapes, season, weather, occasions, incidents, people that would otherwise have melted from my memory. ― David Gentleman
What keeps my heart awake is colourful silence. ― Claude Monet
Don't paint the object, paint its effect. ― Unknown
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ― Henry Ward Beecher
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. ― Neil Gaiman
It is not enough to know your craft, you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. ― Edouard Manet
Creativity is intelligence having fun. ― Albert Einstein
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a soul’s own wretchedness. ― Peter Paul Rubens
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. ― Jackson Pollock
A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions. ― Rembrandt
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. ― Paul Cezanne
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover, to your surprise, that you have rendered something in its true character. ― Camille Pissarro
That’s it for this blog, hope you were able to gather some inspiration and motivation for your art journey. Take care, cozy artists!
