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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Sep 10, 2025
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
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.
The only thing I know is that I know nothing
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
A Good artist has less time than ideas.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Don't think about making art.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.