Art Blog #138

Art Quotes

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo

“If the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, nature rewards him by giving him inspiration.” – Wassily Kandinsky

“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” – Eugene Delacroix

“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.” – Louise Bourgeois

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miró

“To my mind one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.” – Paul Cézanne

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” – Auguste Rodin

“The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.” – Paul Klee

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.” – Yayoi Kusama

“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.” – Eric Gill

“Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob

Ross

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath

“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

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