There is something genuinely charming about words combined intricately well into a beautiful sentence or two. Like many artists, I am also a wordsmith of sorts and I LOVE QUOTES! I read them for inspiration when I can’t create, for comfort after a bad day, and I sometimes repeat to myself the ones that I know by heart. Certain quotes have become personal mantras to motivate me to become my best self. To me, quotes are tidbits of wisdom that speak to your soul! Here are some of my favorites.
Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun
Albert Einstein
Creativity is experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun
Mary Lou Cook
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
Kurt Vonnegut
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
Vincent Van Gogh
Artists give people something they didn’t know they were missing.
Daniel Pink
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Cesar Cruz
Creativity is not a competition
Autumn Sky Hall
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
D.W. Winnicott
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
Annette Messager
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.
Frida Kahlo
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
I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
When it comes to art, it’s important to not hide the madness.
Atticus
Art is everywhere you look for it.
El Greco
Your art is not about how many people like your work, your art is about if your heart likes your work, if your soul likes your work, it’s about how honest you are with yourself and you must never trade honesty for relatability.
Rupi Kaur
The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it.
Gene Amole
If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
Shane L. Koyczan
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
I feel there is nothing more artistic than loving people.
Vincent Van Gogh
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
When things get tough this is what you should do: Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
Logic will get you from a. to b. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.
Ann Voskamp
You’ll never be bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do!
Dr. Seuss
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Dr. Seuss
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are SIMPLE.
Dr. Seuss
We are all a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
Dr. Seuss
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Vincent Van Gogh
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
Play is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein
Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein
The trouble is, you think you have time.
Buddha
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear, and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.
Joss Whedon
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C. S. Lewis
We are what we believe we are.
C. S. Lewis
You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C. S. Lewis
Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.
Pablo Picasso
Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people.
Bob Ross
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Buddha
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Bruce Lee
Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
Bruce Lee
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee
I am thankful to all of those who said no. It’s because of them, I did it myself.
Albert Einstein
Never play with the feelings of others because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a lifetime.
William Shakespeare
If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
Abraham Lincoln
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.
Dr Abdul Kalaam
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
Alan Bennett
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.
John Green
The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge for yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.
John Green
No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Confucius
Today we will live in the moment, unless it’s unpleasant in which case me will eat a cookie.
Cookie Monster
Sometimes me think, what is friend? And then me say: A friend is someone to share last cookie with.
Cookie Monster
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible.
Tina Lifford
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elizabeth Kubler Ros
Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you all the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.
Catherine M. Wallace
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
Bob Harris
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It doesn’t matter how this looks to other people. If this is something you gotta do, then you do it. Fighters Fight.
Rocky Balboa
There are two kinds of people in the world: the givers and the takers. The takers sometimes eat better, but the givers always sleep better.
Danny Thomas
No-one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Ignacio Estrada
I hope these quotes are as inspiring to you as they have been to me. I will ‘see’ you soon in our virtual art world!