Inspiration Quotes

"The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it."

- Banksy

"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it."

- Henry Moore

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it."

- Paul Valéry

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

- Aristotle

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

- Oscar Wilde

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

- Pablo Picasso

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

- Stella Adler

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

- Pablo Picasso

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

- Michelangelo

"For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh."

- Georges Rouault

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul."

- Theodore Dreiser

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

- Scott Adams

"Inspiration does exist but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

- Dr. Seuss

"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

- Albrecht Durer

"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."

- Vincent van Gogh

"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'"

- Vincent van Gogh

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

- Pablo Picasso

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."

- Andy Warhol

"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

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."

- Michelangelo

"The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."

- Robert Henri

"I invent nothing, I rediscover."

- Auguste Rodin

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense."

- Pablo Picasso

"Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely."

- Edward Albee