When you’re close to creating your best artwork sometimes a little push can perfect it.
Art has no boundaries or rules and it’s not made for a specific audience.
It’s your thoughts expressed for others to enjoy. Inspirational quotes can spark your creativity.
Think of the universe’s beauty, chaotic yet perfect and how it can motivate us to create something amazing.
Like the universe art is limitless and raw and is waiting for a creative touch. If this resonates with you these inner artist quotes will fuel your creative fire.
And if you’ve neglected your inner artist these 83 quotes will reawaken them.
Let’s get started.
Inspire Your Inner Artist Quotes
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. ~ James Joyce.
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. ~ David Rockefeller.
Art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ~ Rainbow Rowell.
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. ~ James Russell Lowell.
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.
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. ~ Roy T. Bennett.
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. ~ John Maxwell.
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. ~ Lou Dorfsman.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way ~ things I had no words for. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ~ Unknown
Art is magical, but it’s not magic. It’s a neurological product, and we can study this neurological product the same way we study other complex processes such as language. ~ Charles Limb.
Best Inspire Your Inner Artist Quotes
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ~ Alan Watts.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it ~ Kurt Vonnegut.
Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ~ Keri Russell.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. ~ Bertolt Brecht.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ~ Nelson Mandela.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ~ Albert Einstein.
The reason that art is valuable is precisely why I can’t tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there’d be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. ~ Seth Godin.
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. ~ Wassily Kandinsky
Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will. ~ George Bernard Shaw.
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. ~ Jonathan Schattke.
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future. ~ Kate Morton
All things are difficult before they are easy. ~ Thomas Fuller.
Quotes to Inspire Your Inner Artist
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~ Albert Einstein.
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. ~ Ai Weiwei.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~ Viktor E. Frankl.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. ~ Pablo Picasso.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. ~ Rita Mae Brown.
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. ~ Erich Fromm.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~ Albert Einstein.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ~ Oscar Wilde
Every artist was first an amateur. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~ Andre Gide.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ~ Francis Bacon.
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make. ~ Bruce Lee.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks. ~ Yo-Yo Ma.
I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart. ~ Vincent van Gogh.
Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see. ~ Ann Patchett
Creativity can solve almost any problem. ~ George Lois.
Great Inspire Your Inner Artist Quotes
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. ~ Piet Mondrian.
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~ Albert Einstein.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul. ~ Theodore Dreiser.
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ~ Chuck Klosterman
It’s impossible to explain creativity. It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’ You just do. ~ Eric Jerome Dickey.
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. ~ Albert Einstein.
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. ~ Barbara Januszkiewicz.
The artist has one function–to affirm and glorify life. ~ W. Edward Brown.
Creativity is the residue of time wasted. ~ Albert Einstein.
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ~ Jimmy Dean.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. ~ René Magritte.
A blank canvas…has unlimited possibilities. ~ Stephanie Perkins
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. ~ Yann Martel
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. ~ Marilyn Monroe.
If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading. ~ Lao Tzu.
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. ~ Jean Houston.
Creativity is seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. ~ Michele Shea.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. ~ Wayne W. Dyer.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. ~ Albert Einstein.
All great changes are preceded by chaos. ~ Deepak Chopra.
The artist never entirely knows — We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. ~ Agnes de Mille.
If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem. ~ Coretta Scott King.
Powerful Inspire Your Inner Artist Quotes
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. ~ Albert Einstein.
A fine work of art—music, dance, painting, story—has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. ~ Robert McKee,
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ~ Al Hirschfeld.
A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. ~ Albert Einstein.
Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is ‘to fit together’ and we all do this every day. Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. ~ Corita Kent.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. ~ Albert Einstein.
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. ~ Steven Pressfield.
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous. ~ Toni Morrison
It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create. ~ J. M. W. Turner.
A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all. ~ Paul Cézanne.
The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature. ~ George Inness.
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. ~ Robert Henri.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ~ Nathaniel Branden.
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. ~ Albert Einstein.
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. ~ Madeleine L’Engle
Creativity is intelligence having fun. ~ Albert Einstein.
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. ~ Albert Einstein.
