Inspiration Quotes

"What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce."

- Karl Lagerfeld

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."

- Aaron Siskind

"You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life."

- Joan Miro

"There’s something strange and powerful about black and white imagery."

- Stefan Kanfer

"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."

- Edward Hopper

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

- Marc Chagall

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

- Salvador Dali

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

- Francis Bacon

"To create one’s own world takes courage."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live."

- Auguste Rodin

"It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience."

- Berthe Morisot

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."

- Eugene Delacroix

"Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing."

- Marc Chagall

"Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation."

- Paul Cezanne

"Life obliges me to do something, so I paint."

- Rene Magritte

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."

- Marc Chagall

"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

"A Good artist has less time than ideas."

- Martin Kippenberger

"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

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real."

- Lucian Freud

"There is no must in art because art is free."

- Wassily Kandinsky

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

- Michelangelo

"Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

- Claude Monet

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."

- Edvard Munch

"Painting is a means of self-enlightenment."

- John Olsen

"I don't say everything, but I paint everything."

- Pablo Picasso