Art Quotes

  • An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Charles Cooley

  • The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. Neil Gaiman

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

  • The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense. Pablo Picasso

  • 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

  • In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better. Ernest Hemingway

  • Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Oscar Wilde

  • 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

  • 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

  • Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci