(this is my first masterpost sorry if it’s bad) A bullet journal has a lot of uses. A planner, homework reminders, to-do lists- but understandably, some pages could use a little of inspiration. And what better inspiration than from artists? Even without a bullet journal, quotes can be a great thing to decorate journals, your room, etcetera. So, I’ve compiled a list of quotes (some aren’t very motivational) by some of your favorite artists!
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
“I wish they would only take me as I am.”
“In spite of everything I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”
“I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.”
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.“
“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.“
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.“
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.“
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.“
“It takes a long time to become young.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
“Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?”
“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
“Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.“
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”
“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”
“So little of what could happen does happen.”
“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
“My painting does not come from the easel.”
“When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing.”
“Love is friendship set to music.”
“The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.”
“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”
“Energy and motion made visible- memories arrested in space.”
“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.”
“I’m very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you’re painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.”
“Abstract art should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed- ater awhile you may like it or you may not.”
“Each age finds its own technique… I mean, the strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.“
“I must have flowers always and always.”
“Color is my daylong obsession, joy and torment.“
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.“
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
“The more I live, the more I regret how little I know.“
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“I can only draw what I see.“
“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.“
“I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.“
“Nobody sees a flower- really- it is so small it takes time- we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.”
“I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.”
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
“I decided to accept as true my own thinking.”
“You are one of my nicest thoughts.”
“It’s not enough to be nice in life. You’ve got to have nerve.”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way… things I had no words for.”
“I think it’s so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary–you’re happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”
“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”
“I can’t live where I want to, I can’t go where I want to go, I can’t do what I want to, I can’t even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.”
“I’m frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
“I love those who can smile in trouble…”
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because the subject I know best.”
“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
“Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
“My painting carries with it the message of pain.”
“There is nothing more precious than laughter.”
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
“The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.”
“I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
“Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”
“Creativity takes courage.”
“An artist must not feel under any constraint.”
“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”
“A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.”
“Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.”
“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.”
“Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.”
“In love, the one who runs away is the winner.”
“Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor’s direct carving.”
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
“Genius is eternal patience.”
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”
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