My Favorite Inspirational Art Quotes by the Masters

 With the Covid-19 pandemic that is happening globally, I decided to put together some of my favorite inspirational art quotes by the Masters  which will aid in  feeding the soul of the artist and  help in rekindling the artists creative spirit during these difficult times.

Here are some of my favorite Art Quotes by the Masters: 

 “Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” – Claude Monet

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” – Marc Chagall

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo

“When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.” Paul Cezanne

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

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali

“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.” Paul Gauguin

“In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.” Hans Hofmann

“Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse

“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”  Alberto Giacometti 

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas 

“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

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done.  Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it.  While they are deciding, make even more art.” Andy Warhol 

“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” Wassily Kandinsky

“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”  Edvard Munch

“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.” Henry Moore 

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” Leonardo da Vinci 

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams 

“If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.”  Albrecht Durer 

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” Henry Ward Beecher

“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miró

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross

"Without atmosphere a painting is nothing."-- Rembrandt 

I hope you enjoyed this list of famous artist quotes. And I hope that this post has inspired you to pick up your pencils or brush to create your own masterpieces. 

If you have a favorite inspirational art quote, then I would love to know which is your favorite art quote in the comments below. Thanks!