QUOTES ABOUT CREATING ART

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“In art, the only thing that matters is what you can’t explain.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – Banksy

“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.” – Simonides

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle

“Art is the most beautiful deception of all.” – Claude Debussy

“Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” – John F. Kennedy CLOSE THE BOOK QUOTES

“Art is the lie that reveals the truth.” – Jean-Luc Godard

“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art is not about what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde

“Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.” – Harvey Fierstein

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.” – Emile Zola

“To create art is to live twice.” – Albert Camus

“Artistic expression is a gateway to the soul.” – Unknown

“Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.” – Duane Hanson

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas