![]() “If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are not a painter,’ then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced.” ~ Vincent van Gogh Read the article Henri Matisse and The Healing Power of Art I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it.” ~ Henri Matisse Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. “I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. “Look at life with the eyes of a child.” ~ Henri Matisse Digital image: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI Maquette for plate VIII of the illustrated book Jazz 1947. Read How Mothers Nurture Artists and Their Creativity “I am independent! I can live and I love to work.” ~ Mary Cassatt Read The Power of Color Mary Cassatt, A Kiss for Baby Anne (no. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.”~ Wassily Kandinsky “I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could…” Wassilly Kandinsky, Blue Mountain, oil, 76-3/8″ x 51″. “If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth story to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.” ~ Eugène Delacroix “I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.” ~ Jackson Pollock Eugène Delacroix, Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi, oil on canvas, 81.8″ x 57.8″ Jackson Pollock: “Blue Poles: Number 11″, 1952 Learn About Our Exhibitions & Calls For Artists It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.” ~ Georges Rouault “For me, painting is a way to forget life. “I shut my eyes in order to see.” ~ Paul Gauguin It is the language of dreams.” ~ Paul Gauguin “Color! What a deep and mysterious language. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Paul Gauguin, “Tahitian: Mahana no Atua – Day of the God”, oil on canvas, 25″ x 34″, 1894. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment. “Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. Read the article “Frida Kahlo Created Art That Transcended Her Suffering” Diego Rivera, El Hombre en la encrucijada ( 1934 ), from a mural in Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. “I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” ~ Frida Kahlo Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. “Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one’s sensations.” ~ Paul Cézanne Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940. Paul Cézanne, The Bridge of Trois-sautets, watercolor, 16.1″ × 20.8″. “Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.” ~ Anni Albers Gift, 1969 69.134 © Estate of Anni Albers ARS, NY & DACS, London 2018, Learn about Opportunities for Women Artists Anni Albers Wall Hanging 1926 Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Everfast Fabrics Inc. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.” ~ Judy Chicago I did not understand that wanting doesn’t always lead to action. “Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.” ~ Dorothea Tanning “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.” ~ Rene Magritteĭorothea Tanning, Birthday, oil on canvas, 40 1/4″ x 25 1/2″. “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist… ![]() Rene Magritte, Golconda, oil painting, 1953. Please visit often! If your favorite famous artist’s quote isn’t here please add it to the comments below. We also created a video on YouTube of Art and Quotes by Famous Artists. They may also be provocative and thought-provoking. We update this page regularly with images and quotations that are positive and healing. This page has been created to bring information and inspiration to our readers. Throughout art history we have been enthralled and inspired by the art and quotes by famous artists.
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