Free Inspirational Quotes about Art and Creativity [PDF]

1. “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

3. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

4. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

5. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

6. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

7. “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” – Pablo Picasso

8. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

9. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso

10. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

11. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” – Kurt Vonnegut

12. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

13. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” – Alberto Giacometti

14. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso

15. “Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein

16. “Art must be an integral part of the struggle. It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place. It must go beyond that.” – Harry Belafonte

17. “The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.” – Robert Rauschenberg

18. “Art is not a thing, it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard

19. “Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.” – Osho

20. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – Cesar A. Cruz

21. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein

22. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde

23. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw

24. “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” – Leonardo da Vinci

25. “The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski

26. “A work of art is a scream of freedom.” – Christo

27. “In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon

29. “Art is the journey of a free soul.” – Alev Oguz

30. “Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” – Dorothy Parker

31. “Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy

32. “Art speaks where words are unable to explain.” – Mathiole

33. “Art is a way of recognizing oneself.” – Louise Bourgeois

34. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

35. “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

36. “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” – Bill Moyers

37. “Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line.” – Anonymous

38. “To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

39. “Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser

40. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” – Oscar Wilde

41. “Art is a way to express the emotion that is within, and it can heal, inspire, and transform.” – Anonymous

42. “Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.” – Albert Einstein

43. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

44. “The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

45. “Art is the voice of the soul.” – Martha Graham

46. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore

47. “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” – Chuck Klosterman

48. “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” – William Plomer

49. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

50. “Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.” – Brene Brown

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