“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” - Robert Henri
"If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul." - Paul Cezanne
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” - Michelangelo
"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward." - Vincent van Gogh
"A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places." - Paul Gardner
"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
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” - Robert Hughes
“Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.” - Vincent Van Gogh
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” - Leonardo Da Vinci
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.” - Vincent Van Gogh
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” - 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
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” - Leonardo da Vinci
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” - Oscar Wilde
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” - Aristotle
“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.” - Henry Moore
“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” - Claude Monet
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” - Lucian Freud
“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
“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
“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” - Marc Chagall
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” - Alberto Giacometti
“Creativity takes courage.” - Henri Matisse
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” - Edward Hopper
“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” - Vincent van Gogh
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