Arts Quotes

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. 
It's in the subconscious.
Andrew Wyeth

All true artists, whether they know it or not, 
create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Eckhart Tolle

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat
August Renoir

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
Mahtma Gandhi

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place;
 from the sky,from the earth, from a scrap of paper, 
from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
Pablo Picasso

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, 
because I am the person I know best."
Frida Khalo

"The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it.
 The strokes come like speech."
Vincent Van Gogh

"I would have been an athlete, but I had a lot of childhood illnesses
 that developed a solitude and a deepening and fostered "artisticness."
Joni Mitchell

"Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job."
Andy Wharol

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say 
any other way--things I had no words for."
Georgia O'keeffe

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michleangelo

"Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50."
Edgar Degas

"Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. 
Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient 
instrument of a remote will."
Paul Klee

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

"All children are artists. 
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso

"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