36+ Best Art Education Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Art is the making of objects, images, music, etc. that are beautiful or that express feelings. Profoundly inspirational art education quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.

If you’re searching for academic quotes and popular learning quotes that perfectly capture what you’d like to say or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of significant exam quotes, best book quotes and greatest essay quotes.

Famous Art Education Quotes

I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart Vincent van Gogh

Painting from nature is not copying the object, it’s realizing one’s sensations Paul Cezanne

Creativity takes courage Henri Matisse

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image Elaine de Kooning

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint Edward Hopper

Colour is my day long obsession, joy and torment Claude Monet

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself Andy Warhol

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life Pablo Picasso

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun Pablo Picasso

Great art picks up where nature ends Marc Chagall

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

The position of the artist is humble He is essentially a channel Piet Mondrian

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things Edgar Degas

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing Salvador Dali

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint Edward Hopper

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery Francis Bacon

I just feel that I’m in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I’m in the process of working Louise Nevelson

To create one’s own world takes courage Georgia O’Keeffe

There is no must in art because art is free Wassily Kandinsky

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

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce Karl Lagerfeld

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live Auguste Rodin

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms Roy Lichtenstein

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

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web Pablo Picasso

When I feel a little confused the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart Raoul Dufy

A Good artist has less time than ideas Martin Kippenberger

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college  that my job was to teach people how to draw She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, You mean they forget? Michael J. Strauss

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

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing Camille Pissarro

I never paint dreams or nightmares I paint my own reality Frida Kahlo

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get the work done. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you’re not going to make an awful lot of work Chuck Close