4994 quotes by artists for you to enjoy

I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh. Kevyn Aucoin

Life Saying Good You Change Learning Yourself World Will First Big Change The World Good Laugh Otherwise Worst Laugh About Could Never Step Putting Mess Make First Step Makeup Discovered May Your Even Things

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. Leonardo da Vinci

Food Knowledge Man Mind Past Earth Places Ornament

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. Marc Chagall

Opposites Neighbors Colors Friends Lovers

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 end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Pablo Picasso

Me You Mother Become Soldier Wound General Picasso Instead Became Said End Up Child Pope Painter Monk

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso

Genius Leads Hiroshima Einstein

We don't grow older, we grow riper. Pablo Picasso

Older Grow

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Paul Cezanne

Art Personality Seductive About Most Himself Artist Thing

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin

Life Dreams Revenge Being

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. Rene Magritte

Mind Unknown Since Itself Loves Meaning Meaning Of Whose Images

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Salvador Dali

Nature You Try Will Mistakes On The Contrary Thoroughly Correct Possible Rationalize Sacred Never Almost Understand Always Contrary After Them

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. Salvador Dali

Vision Our Considers Destroys Destructive Shackles Only Limiting Surrealism

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. Vincent Van Gogh

Love Good Energy Difficulties Side Gives True Always Love Always Brings

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. Vincent Van Gogh

Life God Suffering My Life Power Painting Something Both Well Greater Without Am Very Than Cannot Which Create

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive. Yoko Ono

Positive You Negative Situation Think About Through Make Go

Every drop in the ocean counts. Yoko Ono

Drop Ocean Every Counts

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? Andy Warhol

Life Change Repeat Themselves Series Images

There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next. Dan Scanlon

You Moving Forward Dark Keep Moving Forward Keep Moving Every Some Feel Days Like Know Real Falling Going Quite Just Where Happen Story Apart Moving Next Forward Even Keep

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. Edgar Degas

Difficulty Everyone Talent Fifty Twenty-Five

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. Georges Braque

Art You Valuable Valuable Thing Only Cannot Explain Thing

For me, cooking is an extension of love. Hedda Sterne

Love Me Cooking Extension

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. Henri Matisse

Art Only Between Difference Paint Things

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. Henri Matisse

Success Style Prisoner Reputation Must Never Himself Artist Etc Should

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. Henry Ossawa Tanner

You Mind Assure Would Would-Be Had Spot Artist Decided Ordinary

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