Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” – Andy Warhol
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – Andre Gide
“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” – Claude Monet
“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
“I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.” – Albrecht Dürer
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
“In art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished.” – Mary Cassatt
“A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.” – Paul Cézanne
“Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.” – Ai Weiwei
“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
“Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.” – Maya Angelou
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.” – Voltaire
“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.” – Ray Bradbury
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.” – Steve Jobs
“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.” – Cecil B. DeMille
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw
“You can’t use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have.” –Maya Angelou
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.” – Yo-Yo Ma
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.” – Ananda Coomaraswamy
“To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore
