20 Famous Quotes by World Artists

 

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

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

3. Leonardo da Vinci
   “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

4. Michelangelo
   “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

5. Claude Monet
   “Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.”

6. Salvador Dalí
   “Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.”

7. Frida Kahlo
   “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

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

9. Georgia O’Keeffe
   “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.”

10. Paul Cézanne
    “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

11. Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage.”

12. Jackson Pollock
    “Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”

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

14. Rembrandt van Rijn
    “Choose only one master—nature.”

15. Wassily Kandinsky
    “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”

16. Banksy
    “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

17. Johannes Vermeer
    “I take no pleasure in painting unless I can express what I feel.”

18. Paul Klee
    “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”

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

20. Yayoi Kusama
    “My art originates from hallucinations only I can see.”