15 Inspiring Quotes for the Artist

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." - Kurt Vonnegut

"Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal." - Henry Miller

"Art doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful." - Duane Hanson

"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing." - Pablo Picasso

"No artist tolerates reality." - Nietzsche

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination." - Thoreau

"Who looks outside, dreams...who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung

"Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer." - Terri Guillemets

"When I say artist I mean the one who is building things...some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen." - Jackson Pollock

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul." - Theodore Dreiser

"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living." - Robert Henri

"Creativity is a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." - Arthur Koestler

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud." - Émile Zola

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso