No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

artist, things, really

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

drawing, honesty, art

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo

a man paints, his brains, his hands, art

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

James Whistler

artist, labor, vision, art

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Creativity, mistakes, art

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

shapes, art, things, words

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

hear, paint, art

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

always, alone, artist, art