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#1

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#2

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: attributed-no-source

6072 likes

#3

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

5050 likes

#4

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting

4496 likes

#5

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

2157 likes

#6

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
― Rick Riordan

tags: art, artist, painting, poem, poet, poetry

2147 likes

#7

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

2116 likes

#8

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

2105 likes

#9

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
― Bob Ross

tags: art, inspirational

2177 likes

#10

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide

3099 likes

#11

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing

2033 likes

#12

“And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
― Lady Gaga

814 likes

#13

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

tags: art, philosophy

914 likes

#14

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: art, reminding

744 likes

#15

“Art is what you can get away with.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: art

609 likes

#16

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

tags: art

858 likes

#17

“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?”
― Salvador Dalí

tags: art, be-yourself, humor, inspirational

514 likes

#18

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: art, comfort, life

1010 likes

#19

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
― Carrie Fisher

tags: art, life

388 likes

#20

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
― George Bernard Shaw

324 likes

#21

“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: andy-warhol, art, ugly, warhol

217 likes

#22

“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.”
― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl

tags: appreciaton, art, generosity, samantha

217 likes

#23

“Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
― Carrie Fisher

tags: art, fisher, gold, streep, trump

285 likes

#24

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
― Edgar Degas

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#25

“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, world

377 likes

#26

“Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”
― Salvador Dalí

tags: art

63 likes

#27

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

1481 likes

#28

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: art, criticism

56 likes

#29

“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: art

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#30

“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked…that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

tags: art, live

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