No matter how creative you are, we all have dry spells sometimes. The remedy? You’ve found it. Here is a list of quotes that are bound to get your brain moving and heart stirring. You’ll be back to your artsy self in no time.
1. “I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.” Vincent van Gogh
2. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” Cesar A. Cruz
3. “An artist is an explorer.” Henri Matisse
4. “If you are willing to do something that might not work, you’re closer to being an artist.” Seth Godin
5. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” Twyla Tharp
6. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” Oscar Wilde
7. “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” Claude Monet
8. “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” Paul Cezanne
9. “One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well.” Vincent van Gogh
10. “Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses – learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” Leonardo DaVinci
11. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso
12. “Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.” Henri Matisse
13. “People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet
14. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou
15. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas
16. “An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.” Louise Bourgeois
17. “It’s not just about creativity, it is about the person you’re becoming while you’re creating.” Charlie Peacock
18. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton
19. “We have to take risks with art. If we don’t, it all becomes a bit boring.” Julie Walters
20. “Painting is dancing with chaos!” Melanie Circle
21. “A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.” Robert Henri
22. “Ask anyone doing truly creative work, and they’ll tell you the truth: They don’t know where the good stuff comes from. They just show up and do their thing. Every day.” Austin Kleon
23. “The creation of true art requires some mysterious innate ability to thrive in chaos.” Sharon Hubbard
24. “Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.” Gertrude Stein
25. “A line is a dot that went for a walk.” Paul Klee
26. “I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” Vincent van Gogh
27. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” Kurt Vonnegut
28. “It doesn’t matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.” Jackson Pollock
29. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Albert Einstein
30. “How difficult it is to be simple.” Vincent van Gogh
31. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” Leonardo DaVinci
32. “Art is a line around your thoughts.” Gustave Klimt
33. “Drawing is a kind of hypnotism.” Pablo Picasso
34. “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin
35. “Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.” David Bowie
36. “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” J.R.R. Tolkien
37. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” Stella Adler
Happy creating, my fellow artists.
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