“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” Charles Cooley
Quotes on Art and the way of the Artist:
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” Elbert Hubbard
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” Gustave Flaubert quote on art
“In art as in love, instinct is enough.” Anatole France
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.” Gwendolyn Brooks
“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.” David Hockney
“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” Salvador Dali quote
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton quotes on Art
“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” Eckhart Tolle quotes
“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
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” Henry David Thoreau quote
“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” George Santayana quote
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” James Whistler
“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.” Banksy
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” Federico Fellini
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” Oscar Wilde
“There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it.” Henry Moore
There is nothing like quotes to say such profound and deep things within only a few words. I love the images with the quotes, absolutely perfect post.
Green is not just a color, Its a start of something great… Change- Aryn R