Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
- Andy Warhol
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
- Andy Warhol
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo Picasso
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
- Edgar Degas
Take me! I am the hallucinogenic!
- Salvador Dali
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
- Ansel Adams
A good sketch is better than a long speech.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
- Oscar Wilde
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
- Claude Monet
Every good painter paints what he is.
- Jackson Pollock
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
- Vincent Van Gogh
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- Steve Martin
For those who understand no explanation is needed, ...For those who don't none will.