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50 timeless quotes from famous artists

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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Creativity takes courage.”
— Henri Matisse
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
— Banksy
“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
— Pablo Picasso
“To be an artist is to believe in life.”
— Henry Moore
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
— Edgar Degas
“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
— Marc Chagall
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
— Thomas Merton
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
— James McNeill Whistler
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
— Francis Bacon
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Film is truth 24 times a second.”
— Jean-Luc Godard
“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”
— Martin Scorsese
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Art is freedom.”
— Ai Weiwei
“The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
— Dorothea Lange
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
— Ansel Adams
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
— Paul Cézanne
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
— André Gide
“The essence of all beautiful art is gratitude.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
— Edward Hopper
“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.”
— Marc Chagall
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
— Bertolt Brecht
“Great art is clarity of thinking.”
— David Hockney
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
— Anton Chekhov
“Art is not about what you see, but what you make others feel.”
— Georgia O’Keeffe
“Art is a wound turned into light.”
— Georges Braque
“To create one’s own world takes courage.”
— Georgia O’Keeffe
“Art is a way of recognizing oneself.”
— Louise Bourgeois
“An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.”
— Nina Simone
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
— Albert Einstein
“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 signature of civilizations.”
— Beverly Sills
“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
— Bono
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”
— Theodore Dreiser
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Film is a battleground.”
— Samuel Fuller
“Art should be something that liberates your soul.”
— Keith Haring
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
— Michelangelo
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.”
— Leonardo da Vinci