Inspirational art quotes
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” -- Rabindranath Tagore.
”When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” -- Marc Chagall.
”What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.” -- John Ruskin.
”Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” -- Picasso.
”An artist is not paid for his labour but for his vision.” --. James MacNeill Whistler.
”Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.” -- Henry Ward Beecher.
”Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day." -- Winston Churchill.
”Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.” -- Winston Churchill.
”Never leave a painting mediocre; it's better to take a chance with it.” -- Guy Corriero.
”I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.” -- Picasso.
”I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” -- Picasso.
”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.” -- Picasso.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand." -- Woodrow Wilson.
"I never finish a painting -- I just stop working on it for a while." -- Arshile Gorky.
"Real painters understand with a brush in their hand ... what does anyone do with rules? Nothing worthwhile." -- Berthe Moriset.
"Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to." -- Robert Henri.
”No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." -- John Donne.
