Favorite Art Quotes

I've found that regularly reading inspirational quotes is a wonderful way to stay motivated. These are a few of my favorite art and creativity quotes:

"The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable." -Robert Henri

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
- Thomas Merton

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead."
- Horace Pippin

"Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse

"Art is not a thing; it is a way." - Elbert Hubbard

"Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice."
- Phil Cousineau

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
- Paul Klee

"Everything starts from a dot." - Wassily Kandinsky

"There is no must in art because art is free." - Wassily Kandinsky

"Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful."- Oprah

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.: - Andy Warhol

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keeffe

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." - Pablo Picasso

"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart." - George Sand

For more inspirational sayings, check out the LoFL blog and my Pinterest Inspiration board.