My art doesn't resonate with everyone and I'm okay with that. I make my art for me, my peace, my soul, my mind and my need to create and express. — Me, April 2024

What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know. — Jorge Luis Borges

From the depths of chaos and uncertainty, art finds a way to heal and endure. — ?

The sketchbook is the artist’s playground — a place where mistakes become masterpieces. — ?

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. — Mark Twain

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton

Within every bird song, there’s a story of freedom, reflection, and the beauty of the untold. — Unknown

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. — H.D. Thoreau

I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand… — Pablo Neruda

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. — George Bernard Shaw.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination — Henry David Thoreau

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

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. — Pablo Picasso

Out of difficulties grow miracles. — Jean de la Bruyère

Art is the longing of the soul for something better than itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. — George Bernard Shaw

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. — Vincent Van Gogh

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. — Maya Angelou

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. — T. Tolis

If the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, nature rewards him by giving him inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. — Marc Chagall

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A certain blue enters your soul — Henri Matisse

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... — Keith Haring

Sometimes reality is too complex. Fiction gives it form. — JeanLuc Godard

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. — Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is vision on paper. — Andrew Loomis

Life is just a game of chance, a dance with fate if you let it be so. Or you could chose to play by your rules to win. — Steven Redhead

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. — John Lubbock

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. — St Francis of Assisi

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman

Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I make art to show my soul that I am listening. — Pat Wiederspan Jones

Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks. – Mark Rothko

Love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. — Pablo Neruda

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever. — Alexandre Dumas

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. — Confucius

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one's course by it, one must still try to follow its direction. — Vincent Van Gogh

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines. — Joseph Conrad

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystery. – Albert Einstein

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas. — Arshile Gorky

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. — Criss Jami

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

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume. — Darby Bannard

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything you can imagine is real. — Pablo Picasso

The Achilles heel of an artist lies in the hope that his art is good. — Kapil Gupta

Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist. — Eileen Miller

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a ‘get acquainted period’ that I see what I've been about. — Jackson Pollock

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh

Action is the foundational key to all success. — Pablo Picasso

My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing. — Peter Falk

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in. — Brian Froud

If the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, nature rewards him by giving him inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. — Vincent Van Gogh

Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams. — Danielle Carson

I love you from art to madness and back. — Efrat Cybulkiewicz

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

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

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. — Paul Strand

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. — Rick Riordan

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. — Leonardo da Vinci

The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us. — James E. Faust

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

You are your only limit. — Anonymous

An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. — James Whistler

Inhale possibility, exhale creativity. — Laura Jaworski

If we go for the easy way, we never change. — Marina Abramović

I make art to show my soul that I am listening. — Pat Wiederspan Jones

Where flowers bloom so does hope. — Lady Bird Johnson

Creative isn’t the way I think, it’s the way I like to live. — Paul Sandip

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. — Vincent van Gogh

I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life. — JeanMichel Basquiat

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. — Helen Frankenthaler

If I knew what the picture was going to be like, I wouldn’t make it. — Cindy Sherman

Action is the foundational key to all success. — Pablo Picasso

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision. — Yayoi Kusama

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. — Edward Hopper

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. — Andy Warhol

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. — Louise Bourgeois

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. — Jonathan Swift

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s selfconscious, and anything selfconscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. — Ray Bradbury

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

Every artist was first an amateur. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

While drawing I discover what I really want to say. — Dario Fo

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. — Émile Zola

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. — Pablo Picasso

Art is coming face to face with yourself. — Jackson Pollock

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. — John F. Kennedy

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. — Andy Warhol

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get the work done. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you're not going to make an awful lot of work. — Chuck Close

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — Vincent Van Gogh

It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers. — Aimee Bender

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. — Vincent Van Gogh

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. — Buddha

I love you from art to madness and back. — Efrat Cybulkiewicz

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

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them. — Robert Motherwell

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. — Vincent Van Gogh

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake — Roman Payne

Drawing is an exercise for a restless imagination. — Tim Burton

What is done in love is done well. — Vincent Van Gogh

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. — Agatha Christie

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw. — Andrew Loomis

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. — John Singer Sargent

Learning to draw rewires us to see the world differently, to love it more intimately by attending to and coming to cherish its previously invisible details. — Maria Popova

What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity. — John Berger

It gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything. — Sylvia Plath

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace. — Vincent Van Gogh

You can never do too much drawing. — Jacopo Tintoretto

Drawing is putting a line (a)round an idea. — Henry Matisse

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. — Henry David Thoreau

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times. — Keith Haring.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one’s soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

How we choose what we do, and how we approach it…will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worth while, and it will do you a world of good. — Cennino Cennini

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in. — Brian Froud

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

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. — Rollo May (The Courage to Create)

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh

Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks. — Mark Rothko

I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life. — JeanMichel Basquiat

Creativity takes courage. — Henri Matisse

All problems are illusions of the mind. — Eckhart Tolle

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing. — Fernando Botero

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh

The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections. — Tahereh Mafi

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man. — Henry Fuseli

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh. — Nicolas Poussin

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything, and not having it, one has nothing. — Giorgio Vasari

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. — CharlesÉdouard Jeanneret — Gris a.k.a. as Le Corbusier French architect

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. — Paul Klee

You can never do too much drawing. — Jacopo Tintoretto, Venetian painter

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat, French Post Impressionist painter

Faites des lignes. Faites beaucoup de lignes. (Draw lines draw a lot of lines) — JeanAugusteDominique Ingres French Neoclassical painter.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. — Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it — David Hockney

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... — Keith Haring

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am. — Luhraw

There is no painting without drawing and there is no shape without line ... in the end all images can be reduced to lines. — ElSahali

Art is to console those who are broken by life. — Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is vision on paper. — Andrew Loomis

I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — JeanMichel Basquiat

Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thoughtout painting is the opposite of that. — Molly Crabapple

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painters identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing. — Fernando Botero

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. — Rene Magritte

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. — James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work — Jackson Pollock

A certain blue enters your soul — Henri Matisse

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. — Vincent Van Gogh

Creation is the artist's true function. But it would be a mistake to ascribe creative power to an inborn talent. Creation begins with vision. The artist has to look at everything as though seeing it for the first time. — Henri Matisse

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life. — John Lubbock

I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star. — Emery Allen

Art, Undeniably, is conductive to happiness. — unknown

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worth while, and it will do you a world of good. — Cennino Cennini

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 often born from inner struggle. Artists are often plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release. — Eric Gibbons

I have a theory that all artists are lost souls wandering their way back to Paris. — Atticus

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. — Pablo Picasso

Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness. — Anni Albers

I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. — Jonas Salk

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. — John Singer Sargent

Close your eyes and dream a dream… and seek the courage to make it real. Reflect on the past, envision the future and embrace today with passion. — Laurel Burch

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything. — Richard Billingham

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself. — Demetri Martin

I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head. — Erdem Moralioglu

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them. — Robert Motherwell

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. — Salvador Dali

Every good painter paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. — Pablo Picasso

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing. — John Sloan

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. — David Hockney

Picasso spent hundreds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to be seen by anyone. In a similar way, rowing practices are our sketchbooks, where we prepared our raceday masterpiece. — Brad Alan Lewis

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. — Edgar Degas

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

I draw like other people bite their nails. — Pablo Picasso

You can’t look at abstract art without thinking. — Patricia ColeFerullo

Drawing is vision on paper. — Andrew Loomis

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist. — Eugene Delacroix

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas. — Arshile Gorky

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. — Robert Brault

Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty. — Kilian Jornet

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. — Maya Angelou

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting — Zig Ziglar

When you start working, everybody is in your studio the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave. — John Cage

And if you are to love, love like the moon loves. It doesn’t steal the night, it only unveils the beauty of the dark. — Isra AlTibeh

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. — C. JoyBell C.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. — Ella Fitzgerald

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. — Winston Churchill

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act. — Stephen Furtick

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. – Cecil B. DeMille

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle. – Steve Jobs

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. — Vincent Van Gogh

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. — Henry David Thoreau

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. — Maya Angelou

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art. – Neil Gaiman

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. — Magdalena Abakanowicz

Bring your humanity to your art. Bring your art to humanity. — Maxime Lagacé

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

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story. — Cy Twombly

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. — Elijah Wood

Love without hope cannot survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith. — Toba Beta

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. — Victor Hugo

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume. — Darby Bannard

If the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, nature rewards him by giving him inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. — Henri Matisse

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly. — Vincent Van Gogh

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. — Marc Chagall

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. — JeanMichel Basquiat

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. There’s the respect that makes calamity of so long life. — Shakespeare (Hamlet)

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

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap. — Marcel Duchamp

I think it’s important to remember that making art is a process. It is never finished. The occupation itself is one of process, exploration, and experimentation. It is one of questioning and examining. — Mel Robson

I shut my eyes in order to see. – Paul Gauguin

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light, and shadows. — Jim Jarmusch

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. — Andy Warhol

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is to fit together and we do that everyday. Not all of us are painters but we all are artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day. — Corita Kent

There is no ‘right’ way to make art. The only wrong is in not trying, not doing. Don’t put barriers up that aren’t there — just get to work and make something. — Lisa Golightly

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. — Alberto Giacometti

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. — Auguste Rodin

I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing. — Francis Ford Coppola

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless. — Salvador Dali

Everything you can imagine is real. — Pablo Picasso

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. – Steve Jobs

Sometimes reality is too complex. Fiction gives it form. — JeanLuc Godard

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso

The idea of divine inspiration and an aha moment is largely a fantasy. Anything of value comes from hard work and unwavering dedication. If you want to be a good artist you need to look at other artists, make a lot of crappy art, and just keep working. — Sydney Pink

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

It is absurd to look for perfection. — Camille Pissarro

Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. In the joy of working, I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, I even ignore them — Camille Pissarro

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. — Madeleine L’Engle

All artist, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind. — Eckhart Tolle

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. — George Bernard Shaw

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin

Art is a persons private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. — Chaim Potok

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate. — Julio Cortázar

An idea is salvation by imagination. — Frank Lloyd Wright

All Art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril. — Oscar Wilde

The creative adult is the child who survived. — Ursula Leguin

Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it. — Salvador Dali

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. — Henry David Thoreau

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. — Ernest Hemingway

And it was within my rage that I discovered my salvation. — unknown

When you feel sad, create some art. Art is magic and makes everything a little better. — unknown

Drawing was like taking a line for a walk so I did. — Paul Klee

Memory plays false with you. It’s never accurate and not exactly a lie. You only get a kind of dream sequence. — Anthony Hopkins

By most measures, I've lived an unremarkable life. At least in terms of history making accomplishments. — Unknown

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

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now. — Dorothea Tanning, American painter

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. — American ballerina and choreographer, Twyla Tharp

Sometimes people who don't speak have the most to say. — Megan Cooley Peterson

It's art, everything is an experiment — Steven Preston

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill

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

Art is messy, art is chaos so you need a system. — Andrew Stanton

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. — Frederick Douglass

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money...I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for ten years. — Ray Bradury

Books are a uniquely portable magic. — Stephen King