Famous Artist Quotes

An artist thinks with colors, patterns, and shapes. However, if you read these famous artist quotes, you will know that artists also think with vibrant words. Famous artists like Michelangelo, Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Henry Moore, Rembrandt, and many others have left their indelible mark in the field of art. What made them so great? Before you look at their art, read these famous artist quotes. You will find a distinct connection between their thoughts and their work.

• Paul Klee
  A line is a dot that went for a walk.

• Michelangelo
  A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

• Vincent van Gogh
  An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

• Pablo Picasso
  Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

• Pablo Picasso
  Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

• Leonardo da Vinci
  Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

• Claude Monet
  Color is my day long obsession, joy and torment.

• Michelangelo
  Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

• Pablo Picasso
  Everything you can imagine is real.

• Francis Bacon
  I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck. It is not hereditary, thank goodness.

• Pablo Picasso
  I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

• Claude Monet
  It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

• Andy Warhol
  Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

• Pablo Picasso
  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

• Rembrandt van Rijn
  Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

• Leonardo da Vinci
  Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

• Pablo Picasso
  The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

• Leonardo da Vinci
  The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

• Leonardo da Vinci
  The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

• Henri Matisse
  There are always flowers for those who want to see them.