Timeless Art Quotes to Spark Your Creative Soul

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

2. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso

3. “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

5. “Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” – John F. Kennedy

6. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso

7. “A picture is a poem without words.” – Horace

8. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” – Alberto Giacometti

9. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore

10. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall

11. “Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” – Claude Debussy

12. “Art is the journey of a free soul.” – Alev Oguz

13. “Art speaks where words are unable to explain.” – Unknown

14. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

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

16. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

17. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – Cesar Cruz

18. “The principles of true art are not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski

19. “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

20. “Every canvas is a journey all its own.” – Helen Frankenthaler

21. “Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.” – Duane Hanson

22. “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.” – Leonardo da Vinci

23. “Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt

24. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

25. “A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others.” – Salvador Dalí

26. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso

27. “Art is therapy.” – Tracey Emin

28. “What art offers is space, a certain breathing room for the spirit.” – John Updike

29. “Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler

30. “Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” – Marc Chagall