top of page
Writer's pictureCharlotte

The most inspiring art quotes every artist must read

Hello dear reader, welcome back!

I’m Charlotte (A.K.A SketchbookDraws) if you’re new here, and today I want to share the most beautiful and inspiring quotes about art with you ✨.

Hopefully these quotes will help you overcome art block (maybe a post on that soon? Please consider subscribing to the blog to read the post when it’s published. Thank you!), loss of confidence in your art or loss of motivation.

✏ Without any further ado, let’s dive into this post!



The Quotes:


  • “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso

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

  • “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross

  • “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

  • “Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.” – Albert Einstein

  • “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali

  • “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

  • “You can’t use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have.” –Maya Angelou

  • “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.” – Donatella Versace

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

  • “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon

  • “To create one’s own world takes courage.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

  • “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore

  • “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh

  • “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

  • “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.” – Steve Jobs

  • “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.” – Neil Gaiman

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

  • “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

  • “I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.” – David Rockefeller

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

  • “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

  • “A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.” – Paul Cézanne

  • “Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.” – Ai Weiwei

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

  • “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali

  • “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent van Gogh

  • “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

  • “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” – Ray Bradbury



Get your planner now!
Subscribe for awesome content delivered directly into your inbox





Top Quotes:

  • “Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso

  • “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.” – Earl Nightingale

  • “Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus


Thank you for checking out this post!

I hope these quotes inspire and motivate you into creating awesome art and content.

Feel free to leave a comment down below to tell us about your favourite quote and your art journey.

If you are interested in looking at more motivational quotes, fly over to my Pinterest account (https://www.pinterest.fr/SketchbookDraws_/) and look at my “Quotes” board for more!

See you soon!

SketchbookDraws


Follow me:


Recent Posts

See All

Comments


bottom of page