Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.
― Millard Sheets
Art quotes for canvas painting
Sep 8
Sep 8 101 Quotes about Art if you need some Inspiration
Every artist, beginner or professional, will need a little pick-me-up once in a while, to get over a bad piece of work they thought would turn out well or to overcome artist’s block. Here are my 101 favourite inspirational art quotes, from painters to philosophers, from scientists to photographers.
While drawing I discover what I really want to say.
― Dario Fo
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery. It wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
― Michelangelo
Art is a line around your thoughts.
― Gustav Klimt
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get the work done. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you’re not going to make an awful lot of work.
― Chuck Close
In drawing, one must look for or suspect that there is more than is casually seen.― George Bridgman
As I work at my drawings, day after day, what seemed unattainable before is now gradually becoming possible. Slowly, I’m learning to observe and measure. I don’t stand quite so helpless before nature any longer.
― Vincent van Gogh in ’Lust for Life’
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
― Paul Cezanne
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
― Leonardo da Vinci
There is no must in art because art is free.
― Wassily Kandinsky
To my mind a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful and pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is, without creating still more of them.
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
― Salvador Dali
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
― Albert Camus
If you as a designer don’t believe in your design and don’t see it beyond the context of the film, instead of as a real creature in a real world then how can you expect the audience to believe it?
― Peter Jackson
Every artist was first an amateur.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.
― Bob Ross
Canvas Quotes
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Famous Inspiring Painting Quotes
Quotes can uplift us, inspire, and send is in a new direction with just a few simple words of wisdom. As an artist I often look to professional artists for tidbits of inspiration to help me get over a hump or work through a block.
These are a few of my favorite painting quotes from some of my favorite artists through the ages. Feel free to borrow these images to share. If you happen to post to Instagram, tag me on Insta at TinkerLab.
“Every canvas is a journey all its own.”
“All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.” Bob Ross
“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” Pablo Picasso
“When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects. I think the life is the same.” Hiroko Sakai
“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
“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” Frida Kahlo
“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
– Elaine de Kooning
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.”
“I love to look at art, I love to look at paintings, and I almost feel like the experience isn’t complete until I’ve made something of my own.”
