- “Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt” ― Christian Boltanski
- “That’s what our life is like: little bits and broken pieces…Picture your life as a mixed media collage. Whatever you add to the collage from this point forward is up to you. You can keep moving those broken parts around. You can add similar pieces…But God might have something more for you. God’s plans for you are so much bigger than what you can ever imagine for yourself. He can use you in so many ways if you let him. You can grow in him and share in the masterpiece he wants to make of your life’s collage.” ― Mary Potter Kenyon, Called to Be Creative: A Guide to Reigniting Your Creativity
- “One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.” ― Vik Muniz
- “Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.” ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
- “Only art can make a new world.” ― Artist Zakirul Islam Sohel
- “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
- “Je cherche le caractère dans chaque matière. Or le caractère de la céramique de gris est le sentiment du grand feu, et cette figure [sculpture] calcinée dans cet enfer, en exprime je crois assez fortement le caractère.I look for the character of each medium. The character of stoneware is that of a very hot fire, and this figure [sculpture] that has been scorched in the ovens of hell is I think a strong expression of this character.” ― Gauguin Paul
- “We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
- “A true artist is never satisfied with settling, so you will never see them stay the same for very long. They are like chameleons… ever-changing, ever-scheming, ever-chasing that glimpse of divine inspiration that creates them anew.” ― Sarah Loven, Les Belles Lettres
- “I was never a religious person, much less a practitioner; however, I was always a faithful believer in a divine energy. An energy that is obviously superior to ours, and similar to that of an artist. An absolute creativity full of different styles and textures, of feelings and mystical wisdom manifested in creation. Faithful believer of this same energy that has kept my faith active and full of curiosity to live my life.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “An artist looks at a piece of paper or holds an instrument in hand and then stops, going “off-hook.” These are the precious moments of the reverie—the “dial-up” preceding a possible “handshake,” following which the connection is put through and the flow begins.” ― Aneesh Abraham, Super Dense Crush Load: The Story of Man Redux
- “You are the birthplace of your own art. Always and forever. Which means you are the art itself. ⠀⠀And that is fucking beautiful.” ― Jeanette LeBlanc
- “Behind every beautiful thing built by man there is a beautiful idea and behind every beautiful idea there is a beautiful inspiration, and behind every beautiful inspiration there is a magical glance of the artistic mind to the world!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
- “We never know what an artist is going to do. Of course not. The artist is not a specialist. All such divisions as animal painters, landscape painters, painters of Scotch cattle in an English mist, painters of English cattle in a Scotch mist, racehorse painters, bull-terrier painters, all are shallow. If a man is an artist he can paint everything.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lecture to Art Students
- “Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above.” ― Happy Positivity
- “When you read someone’s poetry, you carry their pain. When you listen to their music, you carry their soul.” ― Jenim Dibie
- “I have a lot of,unfinished poems.And all of them are like,some love affair,that started too quick,and died too young.Each incomplete art to me,is like a memory lane,of an insane passion,that words,couldn’t explain,and colors couldn’t contain.” ― Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Ginger and Honey: An unusual free verse poetry collection
- “Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—”“Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them and tell me what you see.”I did as he asked and answered, “Nothing, just black.”He tilted my head a bit to the west. “Open them now and find the blessing of vision. This abundance, the explosion, the mixture of colors, the movement, life passing by… See the sun setting? What colors can you find in the sea? Surely there are blue and gray, but don’t you also see that darker gray, light green, even black? Look at the hues of the sun drowning in the sea, melting in oranges, reds, purples. Look at those trees over there. Look at the waves, at me, at your hands, the eyes of your friends. Now, must you still ask me why I paint?” Akram replied. He then left me and walked to the tip of the yacht to enjoy the sunset and the breeze.“Artists,” I mumbled to myself.” ― Ahmad Ardalan, The Art Collector of Le Marais
- “who paints the sky will walk on clouds” ― Stefano Bosis
- “We add more soul to this universe with our art!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
- “The picture is a flash of color stories. No one can imagine a picture that has no story.” ― David Berkowitz Chicago
- “All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.” ― Marcel Duchamp
- “I believe creativity is a gift that chooses certain persons. Not all are born with this magic. Artists are gurus.When I was little, I always compared artists as the innovation of ancient witches and wizards, that instead of using magic wands or brooms, use brushes. Similar, but different in size.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “Like the usurpers in the Italian Renaissance, they seek to gloss over the illegitimacy of their rô1e by offering tangible advantages and making a fine show; that explains their economic liberalism and their patronage of the arts. They employ art not merely as a means to fame and a propaganda instrument but also as an opiate to soothe the opposition. The fact that their art policy is often accompanied by a true love and understanding of art does not affect its social basis. The courts of the Tyrants are the most important cultural centres of the age and its greatest repositories of artistic production […] Yet in spite of this activity at the courts, the art of the age of the Tyrants is not entirely a product of the court; the rationalistic and individualistic spirit of the age hindered the development of that solemn pageantry and those conventional forms which are characteristic of a court style. The only features in this art that we can ascribe to the court are its joy in the senses, its refined intellectuality, and its somewhat artificial elegance of expression—all features to be found in the older Ionian tradition but developed to a still higher degree at the courts of the Tyrants.” ― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
- “The art I create ends up creating me, and this is my happy ending.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.” ― Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- “..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.” ― Vincent van Gogh
- “Allow your inner artist to develop through the conscientious application of passion, personal resources, and natural inquisitiveness. Devote your life’s work to giving light to your virtuous ideas and accomplishing deeds worthy of entering Elysium Fields. While performing elemental labor to meet the biological necessities that secure survival, remember that devotion to public services, performing acts of kindness, and engagement in artistic creations is what makes us human. Art has a more profound impact upon civilization than all the standing armies in the world. Art expresses our humanity while warring reveals our inhumanity.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That’s because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.” ― H.P. Lovecraft