bugoy1

I thought that a new topic of inspiring quotes for Artists would be nice. Add new ones as you find them. I liked this one because I am constantly doubting myself and questioning my sense of design. This reminds me that it is normal to do that. So in light of that, here is the first quote.

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

-Robert Hughes

Normal

Excellent topic and great starting quote! I'll be on the lookout.

Lizzi

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best....



......and who would decide?

bluemoon

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Pablo Picasso

chelydra

What is the use of painting a stormcloud if the storm be not therein?

Quote is not quite verbatim, but close enough. I forgot who this came from and thought it might be Leonardo, then Constable, but I just (re)discovered it's from my old favorite Albert Pinkham Ryder, and I must have memorized it about fifty years ago which was when I last read a book about him.

chelydra

Beauty lies in seeking. — Furtwangler
Beauty lies in finding — Picasso

bluemoon

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. -Salvador Dalí

bugoy1

"No self respecting artist ever graduated from college" - N.C. Wyeth

Normal

"I love snow and all forms of radiant frost." Percy Bysshe Shelley

indigo

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see" - Henry David Thoreau

Lizzi

And - when you change the way you look at thing, the things you look at change.

bugoy1

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ~Pablo Picasso

bugoy1

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” ~Jean-Luc Godard

bluemoon

"The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible." -Constantin Brancusi

Lizzi

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
Tom Robbins

Normal

This comes courtesy of "A Word a Day," which puts a nifty quote after each daily definition.

"Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view." Paul Klee (1870-1941)

bugoy1

"Everything you can imagine is real" - Pablo Picasso

bluemoon

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― T.S. Eliot

Normal

A Van Gogh quote, found in FEB Science of Mind magazine:

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

bugoy1

That is such a good quote, Normal. I tend to agree.