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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
Sep 17, 2025
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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.
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.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Design is where science and art break even.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Being willing is not enough. We must do.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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