Photo Quotes

 “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent van Gogh 

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

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

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

 “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein 

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

 “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola 

 “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton 

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

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

 “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 

 “Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse 

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

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

 “One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee 

 “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
― Vincent van Gogh 

 “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
― Pablo Picasso 

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

 “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs 

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

 “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche 

 “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde 

 “When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
― Pablo Picasso 

 “The human body is the best work of art.”
― Jess C. Scott 

 “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
― Pablo Picasso 

 “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― Oscar Wilde 

 “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
― Leonardo da Vinci 

 “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus 

 “Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
― Groucho Marx 

 “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso 

 “Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson 

 “Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson 

 “An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
― J.D. Salinger 

 “Art is the proper task of life. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche 

 “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Chekhov 

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

 “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
― Mikhail Bakunin 

 “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
― Flannery O'Connor 

“Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”