Inspirational Artist Quotes

A good artist has less time than ideas. ~ Martin Kippenberger

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. ~ Robert Henri

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. ~ Iris Murdoch

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

He's a pagan! I'm an artist! We're naturally sympathetic! ~ Sidney Howard

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~ Pablo Picasso

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ~ Lincoln Steffens

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality ... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there. ~ Adam Lambert

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique. ~ Steven Brust

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens. ~ Jeff Koons

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. ~ Oscar Wilde

Every artist gets asked the question, "Where do you get your ideas?" The honest artist answers, "I steal them. ~ Austin Kleon

Every good painter paints what he is. ~ Jackson Pollock

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

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete. ~ Sylvia Plath

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. ~ Martha Graham

No artist tolerates reality. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

How can U say one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling youve given up something ... I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene. - Andy Warhol, 1963 ~ Legs McNeil

Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ~ Voltaire

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight ~ Laurie Nadel

There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale. ~ Harvey MacKay

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. "NO? ~ Brenda M. McGraw

Everything will usually get worse before it gets better, but when it does get better ... remember all who put you down and all who helped you up. Forgive but never forget. Let Karma take care of all the rest. ~ Timothy Pina

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature. ~ Andrea Riseborough

Don't forget to
raise your voice
when their words
hurt your soul.

Don't forget to shove,
when they try to hush you.

If every time you look
at yourself, and
all that you can see is
the ruined mascara,
dry lips and burning eyes
Girl,
that's the proof for you
to pack your bags and leave.

If they bury you
with the roses and
burn you alive
with their words
Girl,
that's the proof for you
to pack your bags and leave.

Don't forget to
raise your voice
when their words
hurt your soul.

Don't forget to shove,
when they try to hush you. ~ Jyoti Patel

The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The most powerful force on earth is residing in your heart; it is your power of love. ~ Debasish Mridha

Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it. ~ Debasish Mridha

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. ~ Steve Maraboli

Can you hear me? Sighing. You were right. My requiem is well prepared. Still to be written is the poem that is never complete, an endless rubbing on the ink block, an endless dipping of the pen, an endless swoop over the white paper, the poem of my life. I will try to write it down. Soon, no, now, I will try. The first line. I called him Necktie. I will write: He taught me to see with eyes of feeling. ~ Milena Michiko Flasar

Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture. ~ Chris Prentiss

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. ~ Ananda Coomaraswamy

Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat. ~ A.D. Posey

A woman's place is in the kitchen ... sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It was in my flaws, I found a much deeper truth and it is from them, I bloom ..a black rose. ~ Segovia Amil

Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic. ~ JD Era

People would say - to break free, to soar, and sadly, to chop your wings too. The moment you listen to them, you voluntarily put yourself in a cage.
Be a free soul - fly or fall on your own terms. ~ Saru Singhal

Everything you do,
do with great love.
Make it a song of your soul,
and beauty of your heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts. ~ Gina Greenlee

Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness. ~ A.D. Posey

The world is finite and yet nothing ever happens more than once exactly the same way. ~ Brian L. Tucker

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist. ~ Toni Braxton

A voice in the darkness said, 'You have come too far.' Arren answered it, saying, 'Only too far is far enough. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. ~ Rudy Giuliani

Anson Dorrance ... left me a short, encouraging note: "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching. ~ Mia Hamm

You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal ... Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it's a loser's game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else. ~ Tim Tebow

Love the woman and let her bloom! ~ Avijeet Das

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning. ~ Khalil Gibran

On the other hand, maybe what attracts us aren't the stories of falling apart so much as the stories of self-creation. The falling apart stuff is just a byproduct, a hazard of the trade. Maybe what I loved about Camille Claudel was what she created out of what she smashed to bits. How did a bourgeois girl become an artist and a woman? What was the female equivalent of the Great Man? If it didn't exist, why not? Who said it didn't? Who said it couldn't? What were the conditions that made it so hard? Rodin was the image Claudel identified with and against which she defined herself. Scott was this image for Zelda. A woman could not be a great artist and have a traditional marriage - not unless her husband was a Leonard Woolf. One boyfriend I had in college used to joke, 'Only one artist in the family,' meaning not me. I didn't get it then, but I get it now. There was always something self-annihilating in the act of loving, for a girl with creative aspirations - always - but far more then than now. The message, invariably, was that youthful passions lead to middle-age breakdowns, so choose your institution wisely. Marriage or the nuthouse. One or the other. It started to dawn on me that it wasn't that I was attracted to stories about girls who went mad, I was attracted to stories about girls with ambitions who wound up institutionalized. Getting locked up was not the result of adventure, it was the price you paid for adventure, it was your punishment. I had mistaken correlation f ~ Carina Chocano

An Ally does not keep count ~ Morag Barrett

Humans are the greatest sacred resources. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita