Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Paul Klee
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc Chagall
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
To create one’s own world takes courage..
Georgia O’Keeffe
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.
Vincent Van Gogh
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Vincent van Gogh
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Paul Klee
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc Chagall
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
To create one’s own world takes courage.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.
Paul Cézanne
In art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished.
Mary Cassatt
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
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
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
I assure you, no art was less spontaneous than mine.
Edgar Degas
One sees what one wants to see. It is false, and that falsity is the foundation of art.
Edgar Degas
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
Henri Matisse
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
Henri Matisse
Artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
Henri Matisse
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.
Henri Matisse
A certain blue enters your soul.
Henri Matisse
Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
Henri Matisse
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
There is only one difference between a madman and me. Three madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Salvador Dali
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
Salvador Dali
Art is to console those who are broken.
Vincent Van Gogh
I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh
Close friends are truly life's treasures. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our treats. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
Vincent Van Gogh
If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.
Paul Gauguin
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
Paul Gauguin
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
I must have flowers, always, and always.
Claude Monet
The real subject of every painting is light.
Claude Monet
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Claude Monet
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
Paul Cezanne
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
Paul Cezanne
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissaro
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
Camille Pissaro
Above all, keep your colors fresh.
Edouard Manet
Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.
Edouard Manet
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