MEREL KOONING QUOTE

“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.” – Willem de Kooning

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

“Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” – John F. Kennedy

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent van Gogh

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.” – Emile Zola

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso

“A work of art is a scream of freedom.” – Christo

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

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman

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

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde SELF CENTERED QUOTES

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art is the most beautiful deception of all.” – Claude Debussy

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.” – Vladimir Mayakovsky

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward, you can remove all traces of reality.” – Pablo Picasso

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions hidden beneath the answers.” – James Baldwin

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” – John F. Kennedy

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